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Jerold

As a boy's name, Jerold is understood to mean "spear rule". It had its heyday in the 1940s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is on the rarer side without being unusual in the registry. The name's best year yet was 1942.

EtymologyVariant of Gerald
EtymologyMeaning "spear rule"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
116
1920s
385
1930s
1,181
1940s
1,867
1950s
1,448
1960s
1,126
1970s
569
1980s
327
1990s
233
2000s
101
2010s
58
Peaked in the 1940s · 7,411 total U.S. births since 1900