girls:
3.7k births since 1985
#2824 (51st percentile)
boys:
540 births since 1948
#4046 (12th percentile)
overall:
4.3k births since 1948
#4187 (46th percentile)
The name Jersey is the #4,187 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,284 recorded births since 1948. This represents the 45.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 45.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,824 (50.6% percentile) for all time with 3,744 births since 1985. For boys, it ranks #4,046 (11.7% percentile) for all time with 540 births since 1948.
Jersey first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1948 (1948 for boys and 1985 for girls). Birth data for Jersey is available in 33 out of the 76 years between 1948 and 2023 (31 years for boys and 28 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 Jersey has been given predominantly to girls, with 87.4% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 73.2% of babies named Jersey were girls. Interestingly, until around 1985, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1948 to 1984), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (87.6% girls from 1985 to 2023).
For girls, Jersey reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 24.1% percentile (ranked #717) with 118 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 118 births per million (ranked 24.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Jersey ranks #821 for girls (13.3% percentile) with 75 births per million, which is 63.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Jersey reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 6.0% percentile (ranked #869) with 32 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 32 births per million (ranked 6.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Jersey ranks #868 for boys (4.7% percentile) with 26 births per million, which is 81.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jersey".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Jersey.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Jersey", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Jersey.
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Jersey. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.2% confident that Jersey is pronounced as JER-zee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JER-see, at 12.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Jersey? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Jersey. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Jersey, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
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 ER1 Z 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.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker