How rare is the name Jerod?

5,107 people in the United States have the first name Jerod, about 1 in 59,141. It ranks #3,855 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

JEROD

#3,855

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
5,107
About
1 in 59,141
This common or more
83.1%
Who bears it

Of the 5,107 people named Jerod, 74.8% reported their origin as White, 14.1% as Black and 4.4% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are male (100%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Jerod peaked in 1980, when 295 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19362025
Peak year
1980
Births that year
295
In 2025*
5 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 6,014 babies have been given the name since 1936. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Jerod by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #1,331. The largest share of babies named Jerod, 47.5%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1930s#9,91512
1940s#11,8886
1950s#10,93119
1960s#5,030156
1970s#1,5141,547
1980s#1,3312,270
1990s#2,2411,324
2000s#5,327506
2010s#13,610138
2020s#21,35636
Silent Generation 1928–450.2%
Baby boom 1946–640.6%
Generation X 1965–8033%
Millennials 1981–9647.5%
Generation Z 1997–1216.9%
2013 and later1.7%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Jerod is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jerod has been most common in Kansas (3.4×), Nebraska (3.4×), and Oklahoma (3.2×), and least common in New York (0.32×).

3,694 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Jerod

#3,853 Eboni · 5,109#3,854 Kalen · 5,108#3,856 Keanu · 5,104#3,857 Breann · 5,102

Spelled almost the same

4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Jerod, most common first.

#2,949 Jerrod · 7,643#5,231 Jered · 3,320#5,258 Jerad · 3,304#15,564 Jerid · 738

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