girls:
5 births since 1986
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.7k births since 1941
#3031 (34th percentile)
overall:
1.7k births since 1941
#6081 (21st percentile)
The name Jerell is the #6,081 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,668 recorded births since 1941. This represents the 21.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 21.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,031 (33.9% percentile) for all time with 1,663 births since 1941. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1986.
Jerell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1941 (1941 for boys and 1986 for girls). Birth data for Jerell is available in 61 out of the 83 years between 1941 and 2023 (61 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Jerell has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jerell reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 11.6% percentile (ranked #642) with 44 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 44 births per million (ranked 11.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2006, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jerell ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 7.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jerell reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #814) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1986.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jerell".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Jerell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.1% confident that Jerell is pronounced as jer-EHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JEH-rehl, at 21.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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