Jerlyn — girls' name

What the Data Says About Jerlyn

The Social Security Administration has registered 254 babies named Jerlyn between 1939 and 2013, spanning 75 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jerlyn currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2013. The name reached its historical peak in 1949, when 11 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jerlyn performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 64 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Jerlyn shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Jerlyn in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jerlyn 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 254 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.