Jerret
Jerret was last recorded in 2011, when 6 babies were given it; 453 Americans have been recorded with it between 1966 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jerret by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jerret?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,475, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1990, the peak
Jerret peaked in 1990, when 22 boys were given it, #2,901 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | #11,475 | 3.2 |
| 2009 | 10 | #7,968 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,720 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 8 | #8,004 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,359 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 19 | #4,119 | 9.7 |
| 1999 | 13 | #5,157 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,158 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,893 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,638 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 13 | #4,645 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 20 | #3,301 | 10.2 |
| 1992 | 16 | #3,824 | 8.0 |
| 1991 | 18 | #3,384 | 8.9 |
| 1990 | 22 | #2,901 | 10.7 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,386 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 18 | #3,020 | 9.4 |
| 1987 | 16 | #3,124 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 16 | #3,058 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,502 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 16 | #2,879 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 18 | #2,618 | 10.0 |
| 1982 | 16 | #2,900 | 8.8 |
| 1981 | 14 | #3,124 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 17 | #2,782 | 9.5 |
| 1979 | 13 | #3,251 | 7.6 |
| 1978 | 13 | #3,138 | 7.9 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,710 | 6.1 |
| 1976 | 12 | #3,160 | 7.6 |
| 1975 | 10 | #3,530 | 6.4 |
| 1974 | 12 | #3,032 | 7.6 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,875 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,788 | 4.9 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,650 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,392 | 4.8 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,758 | 3.9 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,226 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jerret a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jerret has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jerret: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jerret, and how old are they?
An estimated 426 Americans named Jerret and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 33 and 46. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 413 people named Jerret (4 women and girls, 409 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 433 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 2,543 babies since 1880, Jerret is the second most given (18% 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 Jerret
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 Jerret and names like it
- Compare Jerret and JerrettBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJerret peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jerret since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Jerret.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jerret alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.