Jerald

Where Jerald comes from

The dictionaries list Jerald as a given name — a male given name from the Germanic languages, a nonstandard spelling of Gerald — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Germanic
Along the way
  1. 1909
    First appearance
    #1,440 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1922
    Jerald terHorst born
    American journalist
  3. 1942
    Peak, #223
    647 babies named Jerald — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1971
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #454.
  5. 1974
    Jerald Honeycutt born
    American basketball player
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from the Germanic languages, a nonstandard spelling of Gerald.
Namesakes
  • Jerald Honeycutt · American basketball player, born 1974
  • Jerald terHorst · American journalist, 1922–2010
  • Jerald Ericksen · American mathematician specializing in continuum mechanics, 1924–2021
  • Jerald Clark · American baseball player, born 1963

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.