Boy
Jerald
Jerald is a boy's name, a solidly familiar choice, that was at its most popular in the 1940s and is rarely chosen now.
EtymologyVariant of Gerald
GermanicGermanic "ger" (spear) + "wald" (rule) – "rule of the spear"
Births by decade
1900s
5
1910s
356
1920s
1,091
1930s
3,235
1940s
5,731
1950s
5,096
1960s
4,155
1970s
2,602
1980s
1,635
1990s
1,163
2000s
667
2010s
315
Peaked in the 1940s · 26,051 total U.S. births since 1900