Jerrold

Where Jerrold comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Jerrold.

  • Germanic
Jerrold through the years
  1. 1911
    First appearance
    #1,740 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1927
    Jerrold Meinwald born
    American chemist and pharmacologist
  3. 1942
    Jerrold E. Marsden born
    Canadian-American mathematician
  4. 1954
    Peak, #385
    343 babies named Jerrold, the most in any year.
  5. 1957
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #624.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from the Germanic languages, a re-spelling of Gerald.
Namesakes
  • Jerrold E. Marsden · Canadian-American mathematician, 1942–2010
  • Jerrold Meinwald · American chemist and pharmacologist, 1927–2018
  • Jerrold Immel · United States television music composer, born 1936
  • Jerrold Katz · American academic, 1932–2002
  • Jerrold R. Zacharias · American physicist, 1905–1986

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.