Jerri
Jerri was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,951 among girls’ names; 15,785 Americans have been recorded with it since 1924 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,200 Americans named Jerri and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 52 and 69.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jerri by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jerri mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jerri is “a diminutive of the female given names Geraldine and Jerilyn, also used as a formal given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jerri?
#13,951 among girls’ names, 2025
Jerri fell from #11,318 in 2015 to #13,951 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.0 to 3.7 per million.
575 babies in 1957, the peak
Jerri peaked in 1957, when 575 babies were given it (565 girls, #382 among girls’ names). The 6 births of 2025 are 1% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,951 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,340 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,630 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,655 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,420 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,177 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,329 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,433 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,509 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,603 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (101)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,318 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,455 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,775 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,013 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,978 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,473 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 23 | #5,981 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,898 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,280 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,946 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,109 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,525 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,367 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,520 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,495 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,219 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,269 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,249 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,482 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 38 | #3,106 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 55 | #2,372 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 61 | #2,191 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 72 | #1,953 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 59 | #2,252 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 75 | #1,874 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 68 | #1,995 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 73 | #1,821 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 88 | #1,524 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 97 | #1,389 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 91 | #1,411 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 107 | #1,265 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 105 | #1,232 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 115 | #1,155 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 153 | #967 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 150 | #976 | 0.09 |
| 1980 | 192 | #820 | 0.12 |
| 1979 | 187 | #833 | 0.12 |
| 1978 | 189 | #793 | 0.12 |
| 1977 | 203 | #753 | 0.13 |
| 1976 | 214 | #693 | 0.15 |
| 1975 | 228 | #668 | 0.16 |
| 1974 | 254 | #614 | 0.17 |
| 1973 | 290 | #567 | 0.20 |
| 1972 | 308 | #543 | 0.20 |
| 1971 | 359 | #516 | 0.22 |
| 1970 | 385 | #511 | 0.22 |
| 1969 | 390 | #492 | 0.23 |
| 1968 | 472 | #439 | 0.29 |
| 1967 | 507 | #414 | 0.31 |
| 1966 | 456 | #440 | 0.27 |
| 1965 | 451 | #447 | 0.26 |
| 1964 | 529 | #426 | 0.28 |
| 1963 | 513 | #427 | 0.27 |
| 1962 | 510 | #431 | 0.26 |
| 1961 | 547 | #416 | 0.27 |
| 1960 | 550 | #412 | 0.27 |
| 1959 | 553 | #399 | 0.27 |
| 1958 | 549 | #390 | 0.27 |
| 1957 | 565 | #382 | 0.28 |
| 1956 | 443 | #436 | 0.22 |
| 1955 | 438 | #421 | 0.22 |
| 1954 | 409 | #430 | 0.21 |
| 1953 | 391 | #438 | 0.21 |
| 1952 | 353 | #454 | 0.19 |
| 1951 | 316 | #467 | 0.18 |
| 1950 | 198 | #599 | 0.12 |
| 1949 | 173 | #628 | 0.10 |
| 1948 | 171 | #635 | 0.10 |
| 1947 | 212 | #585 | 0.12 |
| 1946 | 194 | #574 | 0.12 |
| 1945 | 150 | #597 | 0.11 |
| 1944 | 144 | #613 | 0.11 |
| 1943 | 138 | #647 | 0.10 |
| 1942 | 126 | #670 | 0.09 |
| 1941 | 83 | #791 | 0.07 |
| 1940 | 58 | #948 | 0.05 |
| 1939 | 54 | #969 | 0.05 |
| 1938 | 37 | #1,211 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 26 | #1,475 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 30 | #1,334 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,497 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 15 | #2,130 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 17 | #1,935 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,301 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,871 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,767 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,826 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,053 | under 0.01 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,072 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,850 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,204 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jerri a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 15,785 Americans recorded as Jerri, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 girls; SSA lists no boys 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 Jerri: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jerri, and how old are they?
13,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 84% of the 15,785 Americans ever recorded as Jerri. The median Jerri alive today is 61 years old; half are between 52 and 69.
The 2020 Census counted 12,510 people named Jerri (12,270 women and girls, 240 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,934 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 | 430 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 6,160 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,740 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,390 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 382 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 117 |
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 Jerri born?
The states with the most babies named Jerri are Texas, California and Ohio, with 27% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,370 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 1,248 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 802 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 614 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 612 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Oklahoma | 606 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| North Carolina | 551 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 500 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 470 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Missouri | 469 | not ranked | 1.2× |
Where Jerri is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jerri is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1924 it was given 2.9 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 girls’ 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 Jerri 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 46,341 babies since 1880, Jerri is the second most given (34% 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 Jerri
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 Jerri and names like it
- Compare Jerri and JeriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sJerri peaked in 1957.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jerri since 1910.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Jerri.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Jerri alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.