Jerilyn
Jerilyn was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,471 among girls’ names; 5,251 Americans have been recorded with it since 1931 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,160 Americans named Jerilyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 46 and 74.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jerilyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jerilyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jerilyn is “a female given name from the Germanic languages, a 20th century variant of Geraldine.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jerilyn?
#12,471 among girls’ names, 2025
Jerilyn fell from #6,125 in 2015 to #12,471 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.8 to 4.4 per million.
325 babies in 1942, the peak
Jerilyn peaked in 1942, when 325 girls were given it, #397 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,471 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,811 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,310 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,534 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,826 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,726 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,596 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,245 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 21 | #6,125 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,388 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (88)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 18 | #6,858 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,351 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,959 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,766 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,853 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,838 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,672 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,699 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,296 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,445 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,490 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,754 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,263 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,800 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,928 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,230 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 35 | #3,314 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,380 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,704 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,166 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,440 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,129 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 39 | #2,946 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 35 | #3,179 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 37 | #2,946 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 43 | #2,498 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 40 | #2,543 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 44 | #2,309 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 40 | #2,457 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 47 | #2,123 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 45 | #2,167 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 53 | #1,973 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 68 | #1,684 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 68 | #1,681 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 76 | #1,532 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 38 | #2,364 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 35 | #2,482 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 39 | #2,182 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 41 | #2,109 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 47 | #1,862 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 42 | #1,956 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 57 | #1,601 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 61 | #1,576 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 73 | #1,424 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 84 | #1,220 | 0.05 |
| 1968 | 88 | #1,150 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 83 | #1,165 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 117 | #941 | 0.07 |
| 1965 | 87 | #1,139 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 120 | #967 | 0.06 |
| 1963 | 115 | #994 | 0.06 |
| 1962 | 156 | #844 | 0.08 |
| 1961 | 111 | #1,040 | 0.05 |
| 1960 | 87 | #1,168 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 103 | #1,051 | 0.05 |
| 1958 | 120 | #941 | 0.06 |
| 1957 | 85 | #1,147 | 0.04 |
| 1956 | 130 | #875 | 0.06 |
| 1955 | 114 | #921 | 0.06 |
| 1954 | 138 | #798 | 0.07 |
| 1953 | 106 | #916 | 0.06 |
| 1952 | 104 | #907 | 0.06 |
| 1951 | 119 | #820 | 0.07 |
| 1950 | 96 | #909 | 0.06 |
| 1949 | 114 | #819 | 0.07 |
| 1948 | 112 | #821 | 0.07 |
| 1947 | 161 | #661 | 0.09 |
| 1946 | 145 | #660 | 0.09 |
| 1945 | 116 | #693 | 0.09 |
| 1944 | 160 | #581 | 0.12 |
| 1943 | 182 | #558 | 0.13 |
| 1942 | 325 | #397 | 0.24 |
| 1941 | 135 | #609 | 0.11 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,840 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,618 | under 0.01 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,015 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,241 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,108 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jerilyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jerilyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 88 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jerilyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jerilyn, and how old are they?
4,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 79% of the 5,251 Americans ever recorded as Jerilyn. The median Jerilyn alive today is 63 years old; half are between 46 and 74.
The 2020 Census counted 4,523 people named Jerilyn (4,520 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,471 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 479 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,720 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 955 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 593 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 304 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 106 |
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 Jerilyn born?
The states with the most babies named Jerilyn are California, New York and Illinois, with 41% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 413 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 377 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 219 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 168 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 161 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 146 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Wisconsin | 131 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Indiana | 129 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 126 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Iowa | 115 | not ranked | 1.4× |
Where Jerilyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jerilyn is most over-represented in Iowa: since 1931 it was given 1.4 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 Jerilyn 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 11,276 babies since 1880, Jerilyn is the most given (47% 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 Jerilyn
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 Jerilyn and names like it
- Compare Jerilyn and JeralynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sJerilyn peaked in 1942.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jerilyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1942The year the most babies were named Jerilyn.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Jerilyn alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.