Jerell
Jerell was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,257 among boys’ names; 1,682 Americans have been recorded with it since 1941 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,600 Americans named Jerell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 23 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jerell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jerell?
#11,257 among boys’ names, 2025
Jerell fell from #5,613 in 2015 to #11,257 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.3 to 3.5 per million.
89 babies in 1988, the peak
Jerell peaked in 1988, when 89 boys were given it, #1,050 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,257 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,380 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 6 | #11,453 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 12 | #7,003 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 8 | #9,204 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,946 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,221 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,897 | 8.3 |
| 2017 | 7 | #10,171 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 20 | #4,852 | 10.5 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #5,613 | 8.3 |
| 2014 | 17 | #5,360 | 8.9 |
| 2013 | 16 | #5,508 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 21 | #4,594 | 11.1 |
| 2011 | 17 | #5,302 | 9.0 |
| 2010 | 23 | #4,292 | 12.0 |
| 2009 | 22 | #4,497 | 11.1 |
| 2008 | 37 | #3,131 | 18.1 |
| 2007 | 24 | #4,178 | 11.6 |
| 2006 | 48 | #2,523 | 23.4 |
| 2005 | 33 | #3,119 | 16.5 |
| 2004 | 34 | #2,978 | 17.1 |
| 2003 | 36 | #2,751 | 18.2 |
| 2002 | 33 | #2,842 | 17.0 |
| 2001 | 36 | #2,649 | 18.5 |
| 2000 | 34 | #2,700 | 17.3 |
| 1999 | 34 | #2,583 | 17.7 |
| 1998 | 29 | #2,819 | 15.2 |
| 1997 | 35 | #2,369 | 18.6 |
| 1996 | 25 | #2,966 | 13.2 |
| 1995 | 39 | #2,114 | 20.5 |
| 1994 | 42 | #1,990 | 21.7 |
| 1993 | 41 | #1,980 | 20.9 |
| 1992 | 63 | #1,456 | 31.5 |
| 1991 | 71 | #1,334 | 35.1 |
| 1990 | 79 | #1,239 | 38.5 |
| 1989 | 76 | #1,230 | 38.0 |
| 1988 | 89 | #1,050 | 46.5 |
| 1987 | 71 | #1,135 | 38.0 |
| 1986 | 76 | #1,070 | 41.3 |
| 1985 | 62 | #1,197 | 33.5 |
| 1984 | 29 | #1,912 | 16.1 |
| 1983 | 32 | #1,767 | 17.9 |
| 1982 | 38 | #1,608 | 20.9 |
| 1981 | 26 | #2,064 | 14.5 |
| 1980 | 22 | #2,313 | 12.3 |
| 1979 | 21 | #2,335 | 12.2 |
| 1978 | 16 | #2,725 | 9.7 |
| 1977 | 17 | #2,600 | 10.3 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,190 | 5.1 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,543 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 13 | #2,868 | 8.3 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,929 | 7.7 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,469 | 5.6 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,259 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,389 | 4.8 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,811 | 3.0 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,827 | 2.8 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,256 | 2.3 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,716 | 2.8 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,660 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,380 | 4.2 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,308 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jerell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jerell has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 63 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jerell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jerell, and how old are they?
1,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,682 Americans ever recorded as Jerell. The median Jerell alive today is 34 years old; half are between 23 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 1,228 people named Jerell (41 women and girls, 1,187 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,579 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 6 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 17 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 126 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 821 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 487 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 142 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Jerell born?
The states with the most babies named Jerell are New York, California and Illinois, with 63% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 120 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 62 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 26 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 22 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 21 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 19 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 15 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Maryland | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Missouri | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Jerell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jerell is most over-represented in New York: since 1941 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jerell with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Jerell?
Jerell is a less common spelling of Jerrell: SSA has recorded 1,682 Jerell and 7,298 Jerrell since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 17,149 babies since 1880, Jerell is the fourth most given (9.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 71 babies (8.5%), again the fourth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jerell
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jerell and names like it
- Compare Jerell and JerrellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJerell peaked in 1988.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jerell since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Jerell.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jerell alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.