girls:
116 births since 1938
#5600 (2nd percentile)
boys:
173 births since 1938
#4413 (4th percentile)
overall:
289 births since 1938
#7450 (4th percentile)
The name Jeris is the #7,450 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 289 recorded births since 1938. This represents the 3.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,413 (3.7% percentile) for all time with 173 births since 1938. For girls, it ranks #5,600 (2.0% percentile) for all time with 116 births since 1938.
Jeris first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1938 . Birth data for Jeris is available in 35 out of the 73 years between 1938 and 2010 (19 years for girls and 18 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 Jeris has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (59.9% of all recorded births). In 2010, 100.0% of babies named Jeris were boys.
For boys, Jeris reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 6.9% percentile (ranked #640) with 28 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 28 births per million (ranked 6.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2010.
For girls, Jeris reached its peak popularity in 1958, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #761) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1941, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.3% 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 "Jeris".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Jeris. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 69.4% confident that Jeris is pronounced as JEH-rihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JEH-rees, at 19.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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