Edited by Azizi Powell
Latest revision - August 30, 2023
This is Part I of a five part pancocojams series on the male name "Jerome".
Part I provides information about the origin and meaning of the name "Jerome".
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-perception-of-jerome-as-black-name.html for Part II provides information and comments about the perception of "Jerome" as a "Black name" in the USA even though there are more White people named "Jerome" in the USA than there are Black people with that name.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/01/united-states-mass-media-examples-that.html for Part III of this pancocojams series. Part III presents some United States mass media examples that include the name "Jerome" that may have contributed to "Jerome" being considered a Black name.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/01/bo-diddleys-song-bring-it-to-jerome.html for Part IV of this pancocojams series. Part IV showcases the 1955 Bo Diddley song "Bring It To Jerome".
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/01/will-lizzos-2019-song-jerome-add-to.html for Part V of this pancocojams post. Part V showcased the 2019 Pop/R&B Lizzo song "Jerome".
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GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE NAME JEROME
Excerpt #1
From https://ohbabynames.com/all-baby-names/jerome/
"Etymology & Historical Origin of the Baby Name Jerome
Jerome is the English version of the Greek Hieronymos (‘Ιερωνυμος) from the elements “hieros” meaning “holy” and “onoma” meaning “name”. In other words, Jerome is a “holy name”. It was made popular by a 4th/5th century citizen of the Eastern Roman Empire named Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus, better known as St. Jerome. St. Jerome was commissioned by Pope Damasus I in 382 to translate the Bible from Old Latin into the Vulgate (or common Latin edition). St. Jerome was responsible for translating the entire Bible into one stylistically consistent linguistic form which was used from the 5th century on up through the Middle Ages. His prolific writings (second only to St. Augustine) secured him the title Doctor of the Church. He was highly regarded beyond his own time and the name Jerome was used throughout medieval Europe in his honor (Geronimo is the Italian form). Apropos to his contributions, St. Jerome is the patron saint of translators, librarians and encyclopedists.
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Popularity
OF THE BOY NAME JEROME
Jerome has held a position on the American male naming charts since the U.S. government first began tracking naming trends (1880). Although we can say with confidence the name was used in the United States well before that. Since the 20th century Jerome was never a Top 100 favorite choice except for briefly between 1935 and 1940, but he did hover around that level for 40 some odd years. By the 1970s, Jerome was declining ever so slowly on the charts; during the 1990s those drops became more pronounced. In this new century alone Jerome has plummeted over 300 positions down to his lowest levels of usage ever."...
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Excerpt #2
From https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/J/JE/JEROME/index.html
"Summary
The race and Hispanic origin distribution of the people with the name JEROME is 81.6% White, 3.0% Hispanic origin, 12.1% Black, 1.4% Asian or Pacific Islander, 1.4% Two or More Races, and 0.6% American Indian or Alaskan Native. These figures should be considered only as a rough estimate. The purpose of this graph is to compare the name's specific race and Hispanic origin distribution to the distribution in the general population of the US.
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On this basis, the people with the name JEROME have a higher likelyhood of being White and a lower likelyhood of being Hispanic origin.
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The state with the most people named JEROME is California where 12,997 people have this name.
North Dakota is the state where you are most likely to meet a person named JEROME, as 153.33 in every 100,000 North Dakotans have this name.
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The most popular full name is JEROME Johnson. 0.86% of all the people named JEROME have this family name.
There are 17465 last names associated with this first name."...
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Except #3
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_(given_name)
..."Jerome ranked among the top 200 names given to boys born in the United States between 1903 and 1985. Since then its use has declined and the name was ranked 616th as the name given to American boys born in 2008.[2]"....
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Excerpt #4
From https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/decades/names1950s.html Social Security- Top names of the 1950s
"The following table shows the 200 most popular given names for male and female babies born during the 1950s. For each rank and sex, the table shows the name and the number of occurrences of that name. The 200 most popular names were taken from a universe that includes 20,516,817 male births and 19,733,439 female births
[Male] Popular names of the period 1950s
Rank Name Number
1 James 843,531
2 Michael 837,199
3 Robert 830,179
4 John 797,717
5 David 769,685
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114 Jerome 29,699
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Click that link to find the top 100 male and female names in any decade in the USA.
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Excerpt #4
From https://nameberry.com/babyname/Jerome
..."Jerome's Popularity in 2018: #870"
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