Boys' name · since 1989
Jerith
Jerith has 16 recorded births since 1989 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1989 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 16
- total births
- 1989–1996
- years on record
- 1990s
- peak decade
- 63%
- born in that decade
16 boys have been named Jerith since 1989, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Jerith has 16 recorded births among boys since 1989, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1989 to 1996.
- 16 total births
- 1989–1996 years on record
- 1990s peak decade
- 63% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Jerith's 16 recorded births place it above 32% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Jerith's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Jerith's SSA record in two at 1992 and the more recent half accounts for 63% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 37%, consistent with a name still gaining ground rather than fading. Its calmest year was 1992, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1989 peak of 6, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Jerith popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1989–1996
- Peak year (1989)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 8 years of records
Jerith by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1990s was Jerith's strongest decade.
10 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 63% of all-time use.
Jerith births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s
1980s
6 births
- 1990s
1990s
10 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 10 births (63% of all-time use).
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1989–1996 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Jerith draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.