Jerome

Jerome is the 3,808th most common surname in the United States, shared by 9,086 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 32,900.

By the numbers

People: 9,086
Rank: 3,808th
How common: 1 in 32,900
Per 100,000: 3.0

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Jerome described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 60.9%
Black, not Hispanic 27.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.5%

Notable people called Jerome

Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927)English humorist
Jeanette Jerome (1854–1921)American-born British mother of Winston Churchill
Cameron Jerome (born 1986)British footballer
Jharrel Jerome (born 1997)American actor
Harry Jerome (1940–1982)Canadian track and field runner
Ty Jerome (born 1997)American basketball player
Leonard Jerome (1817–1891)American financier and maternal grandfather of Winston Churchill
Vincent Jérôme (born 1984)road bicycle racer

People named Jerome with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Jerome

Also a first name

Jerome has been given to 162,296 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1954. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.