girls:
15.5k births since 1924
#1222 (79th percentile)
boys:
279 births since 1943
#4307 (6th percentile)
overall:
15.8k births since 1924
#2074 (73rd percentile)
The name Jerri is the #2,074 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 15,774 recorded births since 1924. This represents the 73.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 73.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,222 (78.6% percentile) for all time with 15,495 births since 1924. For boys, it ranks #4,307 (6.0% percentile) for all time with 279 births since 1943.
Jerri first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1924 (1924 for girls and 1943 for boys). Birth data for Jerri is available in 99 out of the 100 years between 1924 and 2023 (99 years for girls and 42 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 Jerri has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.2% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Jerri reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 52.4% percentile (ranked #366) with 269 births per million. The name was most common in 1967, with 295 births per million (ranked 48.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jerri ranks #944 for girls (0.3% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 1.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Jerri reached its peak popularity in 1959, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #649) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2009.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jerri".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Jerri. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Jerri is pronounced as JEH-ree, which has 2 syllables.
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