Jerrilyn
Jerrilyn was last recorded in 2011, when 6 babies were given it; 1,277 Americans have been recorded with it between 1936 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 Jerrilyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jerrilyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,666, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
86 babies in 1942, the peak
Jerrilyn peaked in 1942, when 86 girls were given it, #827 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | #15,666 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,865 | 2.6 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,090 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,879 | 2.7 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,073 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,947 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,458 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,699 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,786 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,100 | 4.3 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 8 | #8,721 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,188 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,926 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,814 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,525 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,943 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,335 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,684 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,514 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,940 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,975 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,328 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,254 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,282 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,481 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,327 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,238 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,414 | 11.4 |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,932 | 8.6 |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,954 | 12.4 |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,381 | 9.8 |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,588 | 13.9 |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,452 | 8.3 |
| 1965 | 23 | #2,563 | 13.0 |
| 1964 | 27 | #2,378 | 14.2 |
| 1963 | 22 | #2,649 | 11.4 |
| 1962 | 30 | #2,184 | 15.3 |
| 1961 | 34 | #2,013 | 16.8 |
| 1960 | 25 | #2,400 | 12.4 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,328 | 6.9 |
| 1958 | 20 | #2,611 | 9.9 |
| 1957 | 22 | #2,443 | 10.8 |
| 1956 | 37 | #1,746 | 18.4 |
| 1955 | 29 | #1,996 | 14.8 |
| 1954 | 38 | #1,658 | 19.6 |
| 1953 | 34 | #1,717 | 18.1 |
| 1952 | 35 | #1,660 | 18.9 |
| 1951 | 39 | #1,511 | 21.7 |
| 1950 | 49 | #1,305 | 28.6 |
| 1949 | 58 | #1,194 | 33.9 |
| 1948 | 31 | #1,687 | 18.3 |
| 1947 | 47 | #1,343 | 26.5 |
| 1946 | 60 | #1,102 | 38.2 |
| 1945 | 38 | #1,302 | 29.1 |
| 1944 | 56 | #1,048 | 42.2 |
| 1943 | 51 | #1,131 | 36.6 |
| 1942 | 86 | #827 | 63.7 |
| 1941 | 24 | #1,628 | 19.9 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,552 | 4.6 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,623 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,555 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,514 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jerrilyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jerrilyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jerrilyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jerrilyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 959 Americans named Jerrilyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (75% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 56 and 77. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,101 people named Jerrilyn (1,101 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,058 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above 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).
How common is the spelling Jerrilyn?
Jerrilyn is a less common spelling of Jerilyn: SSA has recorded 1,277 Jerrilyn and 5,251 Jerilyn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 11,276 babies since 1880, Jerrilyn is the fourth most given (11% 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 Jerrilyn
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 Jerrilyn and names like it
- Compare Jerrilyn and JerilynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sJerrilyn peaked in 1942.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jerrilyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1942The year the most babies were named Jerrilyn.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Jerrilyn alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.