Jerica
Jerica was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,945 among girls’ names; 3,914 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,820 Americans named Jerica and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 28 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jerica by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jerica?
#13,945 among girls’ names, 2025
Jerica fell from #8,668 in 2015 to #13,945 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.3 to 3.7 per million.
341 babies in 1988, the peak
Jerica peaked in 1988, when 341 girls were given it, #592 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,945 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,724 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,242 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,751 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,641 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,532 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,375 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,933 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,595 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,401 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #8,668 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,092 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,942 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,611 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,699 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,163 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,146 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,810 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 40 | #3,944 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 63 | #2,793 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 65 | #2,608 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,760 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 66 | #2,473 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 80 | #2,115 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 75 | #2,176 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 80 | #2,060 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 87 | #1,832 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 87 | #1,789 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 105 | #1,540 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 134 | #1,290 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 120 | #1,369 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 172 | #1,055 | 0.10 |
| 1993 | 201 | #938 | 0.11 |
| 1992 | 208 | #934 | 0.11 |
| 1991 | 248 | #825 | 0.13 |
| 1990 | 287 | #729 | 0.15 |
| 1989 | 337 | #626 | 0.18 |
| 1988 | 341 | #592 | 0.19 |
| 1987 | 211 | #828 | 0.12 |
| 1986 | 136 | #1,094 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 59 | #1,889 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 45 | #2,204 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 46 | #2,139 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 51 | #2,037 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 34 | #2,679 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,824 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 34 | #2,640 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,895 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,938 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,037 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,230 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,311 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,809 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,657 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,839 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,437 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jerica a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jerica has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jerica: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jerica, and how old are they?
3,820 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,914 Americans ever recorded as Jerica. The median Jerica alive today is 35 years old; half are between 28 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 3,425 people named Jerica (3,410 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,805 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 | 189 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,560 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 928 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 144 |
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 Jerica born?
The states with the most babies named Jerica are Texas, California and Tennessee, with 28% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 220 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 215 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 149 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Florida | 131 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 116 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Missouri | 113 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 112 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Alabama | 109 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Georgia | 97 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 92 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Jerica is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jerica is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1970 it was given 1.8 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 girls’ 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 Jerica 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 11,257 babies since 1880, Jerica is the second most given (35% of them).
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 Jerica
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 Jerica and names like it
- Compare Jerica and JerricaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJerica peaked in 1988.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jerica since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Jerica.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jerica alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.