Jerika
Jerika was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 1,457 Americans have been recorded with it between 1978 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,430 Americans named Jerika and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 24 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jerika by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jerika?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,339, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
106 babies in 1988, the peak
Jerika peaked in 1988, when 106 girls were given it, #1,345 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #16,339 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,911 | 6.2 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,309 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,176 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,326 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,139 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,017 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,526 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,669 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,687 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 16 | #7,548 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,350 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,958 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,472 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,455 | 14.2 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,837 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,297 | 14.0 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,880 | 15.3 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,896 | 11.4 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,124 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 46 | #3,204 | 25.2 |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,676 | 20.0 |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,584 | 20.5 |
| 2000 | 35 | #3,685 | 19.3 |
| 1999 | 35 | #3,532 | 19.7 |
| 1998 | 51 | #2,668 | 28.9 |
| 1997 | 49 | #2,597 | 28.1 |
| 1996 | 49 | #2,567 | 28.0 |
| 1995 | 74 | #1,888 | 42.1 |
| 1994 | 65 | #2,108 | 36.4 |
| 1993 | 62 | #2,155 | 34.3 |
| 1992 | 70 | #1,966 | 38.0 |
| 1991 | 82 | #1,751 | 43.7 |
| 1990 | 102 | #1,511 | 53.7 |
| 1989 | 91 | #1,552 | 49.4 |
| 1988 | 106 | #1,345 | 59.5 |
| 1987 | 58 | #1,951 | 33.4 |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,394 | 15.2 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,704 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,021 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,965 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,042 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,024 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,079 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,939 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,973 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jerika a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jerika has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jerika: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jerika, and how old are they?
1,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,457 Americans ever recorded as Jerika. The median Jerika alive today is 32 years old; half are between 24 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 1,279 people named Jerika (1,267 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,411 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 28 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 814 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 477 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 109 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 11,257 babies since 1880, Jerika is the third most given (13% 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 Jerika
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 Jerika and names like it
- Compare Jerika and JerricaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJerika peaked in 1988.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jerika since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Jerika.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jerika alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.