Jericha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Jericha

The Social Security Administration has registered 222 babies named Jericha between 1986 and 2018, spanning 33 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jericha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1997, when 20 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jericha performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 119 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Jericha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Jericha in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jericha in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 222 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.