Jerold
given name · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Gerald; "rule of the spear"
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈdʒɛɹoʊɫd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jerold is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 29K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 59K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 68K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 343 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variant of Gerald; "rule of the spear"
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jerold counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Jerold | 7 |
| US United States | 4,839 | 1 in 69K | 4.8K | Jerold | 343 |
| PH Philippines | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Jerold | 60 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Jerold | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Jerold | 45 |
| CA Canada | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Jerold | 43 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Jerold | 4 |
| SG Singapore | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Jerold | 18 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jerold is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A spear warrior
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Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jerold T. Hevenerb. 1873USAmerican actor, film director
- Jerold Wellsb. 1908GBEnglish actor (1908-1999)
- Jerold Hoffbergerb. 1919USAmerican brewer, Major League Baseball team owner
- Jerry Rossb. 1926USnot in their usual nameAmerican lyricist and composer (1926-1955)
- Jerold F. Luceyb. 1926USAmerican pediatrician (1926–2017)
- Jerold Ottleyb. 1934USAmerican conductor
- Jerold A. Edmondsonb. 1941USAmerican linguist (1941–2003)
- Jerry Gillespieb. 1950USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician (1950-2011)
- Jerold C. Frakesb. 1953USwriter
- Jay Wrightb. 1961USnot in their usual nameAmerican college basketball coach
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.8K | #4,014 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1942 | 228 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1947 | 210 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1943 | 208 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1941 | 194 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1953 | 184 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1940 | 182 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1944 | 180 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1949 | 177 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1950 | 171 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1945 | 169 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1954 | 167 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jerold mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Gerald; "rule of the spear" Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How do you pronounce Jerold?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdʒɛɹoʊɫd/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Jerold a male or female name?
- Jerold is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Jerold?
- In the etymology graph, Gerald, Geraldo and Jerald are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Jerold have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Jerold in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jerold.
- How common is the name Jerold?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,839 people named Jerold in 2020, about 1 in 69 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jeroldThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jerold”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.