Jersey
Jersey is given to both girls and boys: 157 girls and 47 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,394 among girls’ names and #2,732 among boys’, #2,181 among all names counting both); 4,673 Americans have been recorded with it since 1948 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,630 Americans named Jersey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jersey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jersey?
#1,394 among girls’ names, 2025
Jersey rose from #1,535 in 2015 to #1,394 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 81.8 to 97.7 per million.
242 babies in 2010, the peak
Jersey peaked in 2010, when 242 babies were given it (232 girls, #1,071 among girls’ names). The 204 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 84% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 157 | #1,394 | 47 | #2,732 |
| 2024 | 128 | #1,627 | 53 | #2,541 |
| 2023 | 132 | #1,589 | 49 | #2,672 |
| 2022 | 143 | #1,516 | 60 | #2,361 |
| 2021 | 146 | #1,470 | 42 | #2,938 |
| 2020 | 166 | #1,330 | 58 | #2,334 |
| 2019 | 157 | #1,428 | 50 | #2,605 |
| 2018 | 142 | #1,535 | 28 | #3,828 |
| 2017 | 141 | #1,555 | 25 | #4,163 |
| 2016 | 137 | #1,607 | 10 | #7,846 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 146 | #1,535 | 9 | #8,330 |
| 2014 | 137 | #1,580 | 11 | #7,263 |
| 2013 | 155 | #1,447 | 16 | #5,510 |
| 2012 | 134 | #1,616 | 8 | #9,241 |
| 2011 | 196 | #1,226 | 13 | #6,392 |
| 2010 | 232 | #1,071 | 10 | #7,831 |
| 2009 | 222 | #1,143 | 8 | #9,384 |
| 2008 | 223 | #1,154 | 6 | #11,735 |
| 2007 | 218 | #1,170 | 11 | #7,320 |
| 2006 | 225 | #1,114 | 14 | #5,920 |
| 2005 | 210 | #1,124 | 8 | #8,659 |
| 2004 | 163 | #1,311 | 19 | #4,500 |
| 2003 | 123 | #1,566 | 16 | #4,913 |
| 2002 | 110 | #1,673 | 14 | #5,248 |
| 2001 | 61 | #2,517 | 9 | #7,178 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,924 | 9 | #7,074 |
| 1999 | under 5 | 5 | #10,668 | |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,137 | 6 | #8,989 |
| 1996 | under 5 | 5 | #9,681 | |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,375 | 5 | #9,496 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,366 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 7 | #7,006 | |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,371 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 5 | #3,989 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 6 | #3,483 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Jersey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,673 Americans recorded as Jersey, 86% are girls and 14% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jersey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jersey, and how old are they?
4,630 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,673 Americans ever recorded as Jersey. The median Jersey alive today is 13 years old; half are between 6 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 3,317 people named Jersey (2,921 women and girls, 396 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,519 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 6 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 31 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,260 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,330 |
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 Jersey born?
The states with the most babies named Jersey are Texas, Michigan and Ohio, with 41% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 21 | #1,496 | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 13 | #616 | 1.7× |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,077 | 1.6× |
| Missouri | 8 | #682 | 1.8× |
| Utah | 8 | #508 | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,177 | 1.2× |
| California | 7 | #2,623 | 0.3× |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #574 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,445 | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 6 | #721 | 0.8× |
Where Jersey is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jersey is most over-represented in Iowa: since 1948 it was given 3.2 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 Jersey 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 6,049 babies since 1880, Jersey is the most given (77% of them). In 2025 it was given to 204 of their 292 babies (70%), again the most given.
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 Jersey
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 Jersey and names like it
- Compare Jersey and JersieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJersey peaked in 2010.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jersey since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Jersey.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jersey alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.