Jerrold is a first name for boys.
Recently, the name Jerrold has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Jerrold. That means that a boy named Jerrold is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Jerrold.
You may not know anyone named Jerrold, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 35 states are home to men and boys named Jerrold. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Jerrold living in one state or another. If your name is Jerrold and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Wisconsin, which has the most people named Jerrold relative to the population, you still have to ask 11,149 men and boys their names before you hear Jerrold as an answer just once.
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 seven letters, the name Jerrold has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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 Jerrold 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 Jerrold, you can simply say:
Joker
Elephant
Rocket
Rocket
Orange
Lion
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jerrold
Jerrold
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
E
R
R
O
L
D
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
R
O
L
D
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. Jerrold sounds like this:
