Jerrell
Jerrell was given to 20 boys in 2025, #4,935 among boys’ names; 7,298 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,940 Americans named Jerrell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 26 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jerrell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jerrell?
#4,935 among boys’ names, 2025
Jerrell fell from #2,542 in 2015 to #4,935 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 25.6 to 11.7 per million.
242 babies in 1989, the peak
Jerrell peaked in 1989, when 242 boys were given it, #640 among boys’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #4,935 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 20 | #4,959 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 18 | #5,340 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,036 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 29 | #3,773 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 28 | #3,759 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 33 | #3,451 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 45 | #2,725 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 42 | #2,861 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 43 | #2,809 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (111)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 49 | #2,542 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,242 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 45 | #2,639 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 79 | #1,851 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 63 | #2,114 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 80 | #1,821 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 89 | #1,737 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 95 | #1,634 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 83 | #1,778 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 90 | #1,611 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 89 | #1,567 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 100 | #1,418 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 73 | #1,690 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 90 | #1,436 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 70 | #1,664 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 84 | #1,467 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 87 | #1,364 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 90 | #1,325 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 93 | #1,243 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 101 | #1,161 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 98 | #1,160 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 142 | #919 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 150 | #865 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 183 | #770 | 0.09 |
| 1991 | 211 | #693 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 216 | #688 | 0.11 |
| 1989 | 242 | #640 | 0.12 |
| 1988 | 205 | #659 | 0.11 |
| 1987 | 207 | #639 | 0.11 |
| 1986 | 215 | #609 | 0.12 |
| 1985 | 206 | #609 | 0.11 |
| 1984 | 156 | #700 | 0.09 |
| 1983 | 122 | #794 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 108 | #858 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 95 | #926 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 83 | #993 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 68 | #1,081 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 68 | #1,058 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 60 | #1,125 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 60 | #1,088 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 57 | #1,121 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 37 | #1,427 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 54 | #1,114 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 51 | #1,145 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 52 | #1,141 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 59 | #1,067 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 53 | #1,070 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 45 | #1,124 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 40 | #1,188 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 37 | #1,248 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 45 | #1,118 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 56 | #1,010 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 46 | #1,142 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 38 | #1,263 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 40 | #1,255 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 40 | #1,244 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 54 | #1,054 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 40 | #1,227 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 41 | #1,226 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 34 | #1,323 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 44 | #1,120 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 49 | #1,073 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 46 | #1,081 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 45 | #1,085 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 57 | #930 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 49 | #994 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 60 | #892 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 65 | #847 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 60 | #900 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 63 | #831 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 54 | #855 | 0.04 |
| 1944 | 56 | #848 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 68 | #799 | 0.05 |
| 1942 | 50 | #941 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 54 | #863 | 0.04 |
| 1940 | 56 | #845 | 0.05 |
| 1939 | 48 | #901 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 50 | #891 | 0.05 |
| 1937 | 48 | #902 | 0.05 |
| 1936 | 68 | #734 | 0.07 |
| 1935 | 43 | #976 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 49 | #906 | 0.05 |
| 1933 | 33 | #1,150 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 27 | #1,342 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 28 | #1,318 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 21 | #1,626 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,645 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 18 | #1,871 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 21 | #1,720 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 18 | #1,872 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,258 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,294 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,062 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 11 | #2,710 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,208 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,077 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,585 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,531 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 9 | #2,822 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,100 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,500 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jerrell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 7,298 Americans recorded as Jerrell, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 20 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jerrell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jerrell, and how old are they?
5,940 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 82% of the 7,298 Americans ever recorded as Jerrell. The median Jerrell alive today is 37 years old; half are between 26 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 4,831 people named Jerrell (89 women and girls, 4,742 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,105 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 188 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 612 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 796 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,560 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,330 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 455 |
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 Jerrell born?
The states with the most babies named Jerrell are Texas, Georgia and Alabama, with 37% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 808 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 407 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Alabama | 288 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| New York | 285 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 270 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 251 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 218 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Maryland | 162 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Virginia | 158 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 157 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Jerrell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jerrell is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1914 it was given 2.1 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 boys’ 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 Jerrell 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 16,866 babies since 1880, Jerrell is the most given (43% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 71 babies (28%), the second most given that year.
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 Jerrell
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 Jerrell and names like it
- Compare Jerrell and JerelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJerrell peaked in 1989.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jerrell since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Jerrell.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jerrell alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.