Jerod

Where Jerod comes from

Jerod hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1936
    First appearance
    #3,549 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1976
    Jerod Ward born
    American basketball player
  3. 1980
    Peak, #493
    295 babies named Jerod — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1986
    Jerod Mayo born
    American football player and coach
  5. 1989
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #825.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Jerod Mayo · American football player and coach, born 1986
  • Jerod Ward · American basketball player, born 1976
  • Jerod Mixon · American actor, born 1981
  • Jerod Evans · American-football player, born 1994
  • Jerod Haase · American basketball coach, born 1974

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.