girls:
22.6k births since 1918
#950 (83rd percentile)
boys:
377 births since 1935
#4209 (8th percentile)
overall:
23k births since 1918
#1671 (78th percentile)
The name Jeri is the #1,671 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 22,997 recorded births since 1918. This represents the 78.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 78.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #950 (83.4% percentile) for all time with 22,620 births since 1918. For boys, it ranks #4,209 (8.2% percentile) for all time with 377 births since 1935.
Jeri first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1918 (1918 for girls and 1935 for boys). Birth data for Jeri is available in 104 out of the 106 years between 1918 and 2023 (104 years for girls and 40 years for boys). 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 Jeri has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.4% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Jeri reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 62.1% percentile (ranked #292) with 436 births per million. The name was most common in 1957, with 436 births per million (ranked 62.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jeri ranks #941 for girls (0.6% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 1.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Jeri reached its peak popularity in 1945, achieving the 2.4% percentile (ranked #523) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1945, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jeri".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Jeri. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Jeri is pronounced as JEH-ree, which has 2 syllables.
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