Jerin — boys' name
568 babies named Jerin in U.S. Social Security records since 1974, with the highest year being 2001. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
32% of everyone ever named Jerin was born in this single decade.
28 babies were named Jerin in 2001 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Jerin
The Social Security Administration has registered 568 babies named Jerin between 1974 and 2023, spanning 50 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jerin currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 28 babies received it in a single year. Jerin is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 54 additional births since 1980.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Jerin performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 184 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Jerin shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 13 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Jerin in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Jerin 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 568 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.
Jerin at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Jerin popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1974
- Peak year (2001)
- 28
- Annual births at peak — across 50 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
568 total births across 50 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2001 with 28 births in a single year.
Jerin popularity over time — girls
54 total births recorded since 1980 (Jerin as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Jerin accounts for 9% of total recorded use across both genders.
Jerin by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 184 births that decade — 32% of Jerin's all-time total
Jerin decade highlights
- Peak decade 184 births
- Runner-up 154 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Jerin's strongest decade
184 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 32% of all-time use.
Jerin by state
Where Jerin concentrates geographically — total births since 1974
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 13 | 2.3% |
| #2 | Texas | | 6 | 1.1% |
13 of 568 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 2.3% of nationwide
- Texas 1.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 2.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1974–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.