{"id":1464,"date":"2022-12-01T23:07:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T23:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exploreblackheritage.com\/?p=1464"},"modified":"2022-12-01T23:17:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T23:17:01","slug":"is-jerome-an-african-american-name-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exploreblackheritage.com\/is-jerome-an-african-american-name-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Jerome An African American Name? (Explained)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I\u2019ve followed several conversations on parents\u2019 forums about whether Jerome is a typically African American first name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of using my personal experiences and people I know, I reviewed the available public data to figure this out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Census data shows that Jerome was a very rare name in the United States in the early twentieth century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although more recent census data isn\u2019t publicly available, one financial study suggests that it was still uncommon in the 1960s and early 1970s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, my review of recent high school yearbooks shows that the name has become far more common. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But is Jerome an exclusively African American name? Read on…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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