Jerome
About 162,296 American babies have been named Jerome since 1880, most of them around 1954. In 2025 it ranked 1,256th. About 92,000 Jeromes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 59.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Jerome boys named Jerome
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 162,296
- Estimated living today
- 92,000
- Median age today
- 59
- Peak year
- 1954
- Best rank
- 114th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,256th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 1,062 / 161,234
How old the living Jeromes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 162,296 babies given the name since 1880, about 92,000 are alive — 57 in every hundred. Roughly 4,600 of them are children and 36,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1966 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Ancient Greek
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Jeromes
- Jerome (345–420)4th and 5th-century Catholic and Eastern Orthodox saint and Doctor of the Church
- Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927)English humorist
- Jérôme Boateng (born 1988)German association football player
- Jerome Isaac Friedman (born 1930)American physicist
- Jerome Karle (1918–2013)American physical chemist
- Jérôme Lalande (1732–1807)French astronomer (*1732 – †1807)
- Jérôme Bonaparte (1784–1860)Napoleon I's brother
- Jerome Robbins (1918–1998)American choreographer and director
People named Jerome with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jerome is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jerome is most concentrated in North Dakota (3.4×), the District of Columbia (2.9×), Wisconsin (2.9×), Minnesota (2.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1954
The most popular boys’ names the year Jerome peaked:
Jerome elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Jerome +4 spellings | 208,275 | 6th |
| Belgium boys | Jérôme +3 spellings | 2,611 | 71st |
| England and Wales boys | Jerome | 1,283 | 230th |
| Switzerland boys | Jérôme +1 spelling | 1,011 | 138th |
| Ireland boys | Jerome | 408 | 119th |
| France girls | Jerome | 205 | 584th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Jerome | 23 | 221st |
| Scotland boys | Jerome | 7 | 544th |
| Poland boys | Jerome | 2 birth registrations | 736th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Jerome: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Jerome | 479 | 0.038% | 105th |
| German boys | Switzerland | Jérôme | 412 | 0.033% | 160th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Jérôme | 99 | 0.023% | 173rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Jerome | 17 | 0.004% | 264th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Jérôme | 2 | 0.003% | 182nd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Jerome | 2 | 0.003% | 177th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Jerome is most concentrated in Thurgau, where 0.12% of children were given it – 69 of them.
Jerome: rank by region
In 2025, Jerome was given 5 times or more in 4 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Jerome | 145 | 41 |
| Flanders | Jérôme | 279 | 21 |
| Flanders | Jérome | 306 | 19 |
| Flanders | Jerôme | 464 | 12 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Jerome appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (Jerome, 99th), Province of East Flanders (Jerome, 118th), Province of West Flanders (Jérôme, 121st), Province of Limburg (Jerome, 132nd), Province of West Flanders (Jerôme, 162nd), Province of East Flanders (Jérome, 170th), Province of West Flanders (Jérome, 178th), Province of East Flanders (Jérôme, 226th) and Province of Antwerp (Jérome, 341st).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Jerome by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 8 | 371st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Jerome among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Jerome +1 spelling | 80 | 165 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Jerome lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 374 men called Jerome were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmas, Las | Jerome | 39 | 0.067 | 1,254 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Jerome | 32 | 0.060 | 1,375 |
| Balears, Illes | Jerome | 24 | 0.039 | 1,494 |
| Barcelona | Jerome | 88 | 0.030 | 1,691 |
| Girona | Jerome | 10 | 0.024 | 2,144 |
| Málaga | Jerome | 19 | 0.022 | 2,077 |
Listed in 13 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 39 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Jerome against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.