Jerson
Jerson was given to 21 boys in 2025, #4,782 among boys’ names; 1,246 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,220 Americans named Jerson and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 12 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jerson by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jerson mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Jerson is “a male given name”
/ˈʝeɾson/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jerson?
#4,782 among boys’ names, 2025
Jerson fell from #3,469 in 2015 to #4,782 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 16.7 to 12.3 per million.
75 babies in 2007, the peak
Jerson peaked in 2007, when 75 boys were given it, #1,903 among boys’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 28% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #4,782 | 12.3 |
| 2024 | 26 | #4,130 | 15.1 |
| 2023 | 19 | #5,145 | 11.1 |
| 2022 | 31 | #3,652 | 17.8 |
| 2021 | 28 | #3,861 | 16.0 |
| 2020 | 24 | #4,202 | 13.9 |
| 2019 | 27 | #3,944 | 15.0 |
| 2018 | 23 | #4,415 | 12.7 |
| 2017 | 29 | #3,712 | 15.7 |
| 2016 | 30 | #3,636 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #3,469 | 16.7 |
| 2014 | 24 | #4,181 | 12.5 |
| 2013 | 18 | #5,063 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 32 | #3,415 | 16.9 |
| 2011 | 30 | #3,550 | 15.8 |
| 2010 | 38 | #3,042 | 19.8 |
| 2009 | 48 | #2,601 | 24.2 |
| 2008 | 75 | #1,926 | 36.8 |
| 2007 | 75 | #1,903 | 36.1 |
| 2006 | 54 | #2,331 | 26.3 |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,091 | 29.5 |
| 2004 | 50 | #2,291 | 25.2 |
| 2003 | 38 | #2,646 | 19.2 |
| 2002 | 35 | #2,718 | 18.0 |
| 2001 | 36 | #2,650 | 18.5 |
| 2000 | 33 | #2,767 | 16.8 |
| 1999 | 30 | #2,823 | 15.6 |
| 1998 | 36 | #2,420 | 18.8 |
| 1997 | 34 | #2,420 | 18.0 |
| 1996 | 22 | #3,243 | 11.6 |
| 1995 | 22 | #3,139 | 11.6 |
| 1994 | 26 | #2,809 | 13.5 |
| 1993 | 28 | #2,607 | 14.3 |
| 1992 | 23 | #2,945 | 11.5 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,528 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 20 | #3,109 | 9.7 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,143 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,792 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,178 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,910 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,782 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,732 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,805 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jerson a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jerson has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jerson: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jerson, and how old are they?
1,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,246 Americans ever recorded as Jerson. The median Jerson alive today is 19 years old; half are between 12 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 2,199 people named Jerson (19 women and girls, 2,180 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,088 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 202 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 692 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 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 Jerson born?
The states with the most babies named Jerson are California, Texas and New York, with 81% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 192 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 117 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 60 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 37 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 28 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 23 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Jerson is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jerson is most over-represented in California: since 1982 it was given 1.1 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 boys’ 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 Jerson with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jerson
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 Jerson and names like it
- Compare Jerson and SahilBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJerson peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jerson since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Jerson: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Jerson.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jerson alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.