Jeriah
Jeriah was given to 136 boys in 2025, #1,368 among boys’ names; 2,477 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,450 Americans named Jeriah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jeriah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jeriah?
#1,368 among boys’ names, 2025
Jeriah rose from #2,311 in 2015 to #1,368 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 29.7 to 79.6 per million.
168 babies in 2022, the peak
Jeriah peaked in 2022, when 168 babies were given it (160 boys, #1,233 among boys’ names). The 147 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 88% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,127 | 136 | #1,368 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,206 | 145 | #1,326 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,811 | 127 | #1,436 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,653 | 160 | #1,233 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,217 | 118 | #1,507 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,732 | 100 | #1,615 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,060 | 90 | #1,741 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,859 | 93 | #1,692 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,016 | 75 | #1,927 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,758 | 63 | #2,179 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #8,667 | 57 | #2,311 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,848 | 65 | #2,128 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,321 | 71 | #1,947 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,851 | 60 | #2,192 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,958 | 64 | #2,091 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,459 | 57 | #2,274 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,224 | 68 | #2,041 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,355 | 66 | #2,098 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,178 | 43 | #2,777 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,802 | 39 | #2,901 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,126 | 37 | #2,865 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,455 | 41 | #2,612 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,322 | 41 | #2,524 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,379 | 42 | #2,408 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,460 | 34 | #2,761 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,357 | 30 | #2,941 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,463 | 21 | #3,633 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,525 | 24 | #3,234 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,357 | 19 | #3,660 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,464 | 17 | #3,906 |
| 1995 | under 5 | 9 | #6,146 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 9 | #6,063 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 6 | #8,088 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 10 | #5,402 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 8 | #6,194 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 9 | #5,354 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 7 | #5,752 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 5 | #7,196 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 6 | #6,119 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 5 | #6,798 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 7 | #5,177 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 6 | #5,863 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 7 | #4,829 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Jeriah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,477 Americans recorded as Jeriah, 15% are girls and 85% boys. In 2025 it went to 11 girls and 136 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jeriah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jeriah, and how old are they?
2,450 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,477 Americans ever recorded as Jeriah. The median Jeriah alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,440 people named Jeriah (282 women and girls, 1,158 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,633 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 12 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 99 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 876 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,460 |
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 Jeriah born?
The states with the most babies named Jeriah are Texas, California and Pennsylvania, with 60% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 17 | #1,233 | 0.9× |
| California | 11 | #1,542 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #766 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,156 | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,013 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,434 | 0.2× |
| Maryland | 5 | #854 | 0.1× |
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 Jeriah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,544 babies since 1880, Jeriah is the most given (97% of them). In 2025 it was given to 147 of their 147 babies (100%), again the 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 Jeriah
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 Jeriah and names like it
- Compare Jeriah and JerayBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJeriah peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jeriah since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Jeriah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jeriah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.