Jerusalem — #15786 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Jerusalem

The Social Security Administration has registered 319 babies named Jerusalem between 1981 and 2024, spanning 44 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jerusalem currently holds the #15786 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 19 babies received it in a single year. Jerusalem is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 133 additional births since 1999.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jerusalem performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 118 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Jerusalem shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Jerusalem in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jerusalem 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 319 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.