Over the last year, we’ve seen Android 2.3, or Gingerbread, slowly lose its majority share of Android distribution. Android 4.0, or Ice Cream Sandwich, helped start the decline of Gingerbread, nonetheless it was Android 4.1/4.2, or Jelly Bean, that truly helped kick Gingerbread to the curb.

In the most recent Android distribution numbers released on Monday, Google revealed that Jelly Bean is finally the dominant Android operating system. By combining both Android versions 4.1 (32.3 percent) and four.2 (5.6 percent), Jelly Bean is now on 37.9 percent of Android devices. Gingerbread continues to be hanging onto second place, however, with 34.1 percent.

As you will see above, Ice Cream Sandwich, very like Gingerbread, is ceding ground to Jelly Bean as increasingly more Android users upgrade to devices that use the newest OS. As this trend continues, developers would be capable of better target Jelly Bean and ICS devices with no need to fret about Gingerbread users.

Next month’s numbers will undoubtedly see the continuing rise of Jelly Bean, nonetheless it will even hopefully mark the introduction of Android 4.3. The most recent version of Jelly Bean is rumored to be popping out this month alongside the rumored new Nexus 7 tablet. Google will upgrade its own Nexus devices to Android 4.3 first, nonetheless it shouldn’t take long for carriers to begin upgrading some devices to the most recent Android version.