girls:
17.3k births since 1899
#1132 (80th percentile)
boys:
614.5k births since 1880
#52 (99th percentile)
overall:
631.8k births since 1880
#92 (99th percentile)
The name Jerry is the #92 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 631,841 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 98.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 98.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #52 (98.9% percentile) for all time with 614,527 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #1,132 (80.2% percentile) for all time with 17,314 births since 1899.
Jerry has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1899 for girls).
The name Jerry has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jerry reached its peak popularity in 1941, achieving the 97.5% percentile (ranked #14) with 13,387 births per million. The name was most common in 1941, with 13,387 births per million (ranked 97.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1943, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jerry ranks #639 for boys (29.9% percentile) with 155 births per million, which is 1.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jerry reached its peak popularity in 1942, achieving the 57.6% percentile (ranked #264) with 439 births per million. The name was most common in 1939, with 445 births per million (ranked 54.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jerry".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Jerry. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Jerry is pronounced as JEH-ree, which has 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like JH EH1 R IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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