Jerome
Jerome is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 143 births. Its best rank was 93rd, in 1938–1939.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1430.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19543,113 births
- Best rank
- #93first in 1938
- Since 1880
- 162,136people given the name
The story in the numbers
161,074 boys have been named Jerome in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1954, with 3,113 births — 0.15% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 143 births in 2024, against 3,113 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1954, and the 1950s alone account for 18%. It has spent 140 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 6 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,062 girls have also been given it, 0.66% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Jerome | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 426 | |
| 1890s | 551 | |
| 1900s | 972 | |
| 1910s | 7,405 | |
| 1920s | 15,453 | |
| 1930s | 18,966 | |
| 1940s | 23,110 | |
| 1950s | 29,705 | |
| 1960s | 22,295 | |
| 1970s | 14,784 | |
| 1980s | 12,188 | |
| 1990s | 7,230 | |
| 2000s | 4,264 | |
| 2010s | 2,816 | |
| 2020s | 909 |
In 1954, its biggest year
Jerome was the 114th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1954 were Michael, Robert, James, John and David. See all of 1954.
Names that rose and fell with Jerome
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Robertpeak 1947
- Richardpeak 1946
- Curtisspeak 1959
- Paulpeak 1957
- Wendellpeak 1940
- Allanpeak 1947
- Carltonpeak 1957
- Lorenpeak 1955
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.