Jersey — #1621 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Jersey

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,874 babies named Jersey between 1985 and 2024, spanning 40 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jersey currently holds the #1621 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2010, when 232 babies received it in a single year. Jersey is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 593 additional births since 1948.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jersey performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,577 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Jersey shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Ohio, which accounts for 262 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Michigan and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Jersey in 35 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jersey in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,874 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.