Jerrika
Jerrika was last recorded in 2020, when 6 babies were given it; 615 Americans have been recorded with it between 1980 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jerrika by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jerrika?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,179, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
48 babies in 1991, the peak
Jerrika peaked in 1991, when 48 girls were given it, #2,564 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 6 | #14,179 | 3.7 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,609 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,998 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,399 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,456 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,270 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,679 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,682 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,224 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,573 | 2.7 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 9 | #12,030 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,281 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,958 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,128 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,217 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,028 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,521 | 9.5 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,931 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,822 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,929 | 12.4 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,025 | 11.9 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,033 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 27 | #3,981 | 15.4 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,793 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 35 | #3,255 | 19.6 |
| 1993 | 36 | #3,178 | 19.9 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,162 | 19.5 |
| 1991 | 48 | #2,564 | 25.6 |
| 1990 | 45 | #2,613 | 23.7 |
| 1989 | 38 | #2,890 | 20.6 |
| 1988 | 42 | #2,556 | 23.6 |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,667 | 13.8 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,920 | 7.0 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,472 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,513 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jerrika a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jerrika has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jerrika: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jerrika, and how old are they?
An estimated 603 Americans named Jerrika and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 24 and 36. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 495 people named Jerrika (495 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 602 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Jerrika?
Jerrika is a less common spelling of Jerrica: SSA has recorded 615 Jerrika and 4,491 Jerrica since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 11,136 babies since 1880, Jerrika is the fourth most given (5.5% 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 Jerrika
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 Jerrika and names like it
- Compare Jerrika and JerricaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJerrika peaked in 1991.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jerrika since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Jerrika.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jerrika alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.