Jerome is the English form of the French name Jérôme which developed from the Greek Hieronymos. This name means ‘sacred name’ and is used in England since the 12th century.
Jerome is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Jerome isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Jerome ranks 809. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 1 were named Jerome. In the entire USA, approximately 153,495 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Jerome. That is 0.05 % of all living Americans.
Jerome is the English form of the French name Jérôme which developed from the Greek Hieronymos. This name means ‘sacred name’ and is used in England since the 12th century.
In the US,... Jerome had its most popular phase during the 1950s.
Jerome is the epitome of perseverance. Every year since first names have been registered in the U.S., parents have come up with the idea of naming their son Jerome. This means that several boys named Jerome have witnessed significant events such as the first Nobel Prize ceremony, the moon landing, the release of the first cell phone, or the turn of the millennium. The first name Jerome has reached its best rank of #91 multiple times, most recently in 1939. The name has also been in the top 100 for many years. This makes Jerome one of the most popular names of all time.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Jerome was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Wherever you go, wherever you live – there’s a good chance to meet Jerome. Because: There are men and boys named Jerome in every state in the USA. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the nearly 50,000 different male first names that occur in the USA, just 386 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Jerome is definitely something very special. In some regions it even makes it into the top 100 of the most popular male first names, for example in Wisconsin, where Jerome ranks on position 82. The greatest chance of meeting Jerome, however, is in North Dakota, where one in 318 boys and men bears this beautiful name – that is far above average – in the entire USA it is only one in 1,088 men and boys and in New Hampshire, where the name is least represented in relation to the population, you even have to ask an average of 59,465 men and boys for their name before you once get Jerome as an answer.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is the most popular first letter for boys’ names. 10.1% of all common boys’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in boys’ names is A.
With six letters, the name Jerome is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 10.1% of all boys’ names start with a J, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the boys’ names that begin with the letter J, the name James is the most common.
If your name is Jerome and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Jerome, you can simply say:
Joker
Elephant
Rocket
Orange
Mouse
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jerome
Jerome
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
E
R
O
M
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
J
E
R
O
M
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Jerome sounds like this:
