girls:
91 births since 1941
#5625 (2nd percentile)
boys:
7.2k births since 1914
#1394 (70th percentile)
overall:
7.3k births since 1914
#3165 (59th percentile)
The name Jerrell is the #3,165 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,258 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 59.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 59.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,394 (69.6% percentile) for all time with 7,167 births since 1914. For girls, it ranks #5,625 (1.6% percentile) for all time with 91 births since 1941.
Jerrell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for boys and 1941 for girls). Birth data for Jerrell is available in 109 out of the 110 years between 1914 and 2023 (109 years for boys and 17 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 Jerrell has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jerrell reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 29.6% percentile (ranked #533) with 115 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 115 births per million (ranked 29.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2008, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jerrell ranks #898 for boys (1.4% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 8.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jerrell reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #800) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1942, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jerrell".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Jerrell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.8% confident that Jerrell is pronounced as jer-EHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JEH-ruhl, at 23.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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