girls:
1k births since 1931
#4687 (18th percentile)
boys:
802 births since 1924
#3785 (17th percentile)
overall:
1.8k births since 1924
#5925 (23rd percentile)
The name Jeryl is the #5,925 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,831 recorded births since 1924. This represents the 23.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 23.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,687 (18.0% percentile) for all time with 1,029 births since 1931. For boys, it ranks #3,785 (17.4% percentile) for all time with 802 births since 1924.
Jeryl first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1924 (1924 for boys and 1931 for girls). Birth data for Jeryl is available in 80 out of the 100 years between 1924 and 2023 (80 years for boys and 39 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 Jeryl has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (56.2% of all recorded births). In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Jeryl were girls.
For girls, Jeryl reached its peak popularity in 1955, achieving the 20.6% percentile (ranked #578) with 77 births per million. The name was most common in 1955, with 77 births per million (ranked 20.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1978.
For boys, Jeryl reached its peak popularity in 1952, achieving the 2.9% percentile (ranked #595) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1944, with 14 births per million (ranked 2.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Jeryl ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 24.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jeryl".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Jeryl. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 86.5% confident that Jeryl is pronounced as JEH-ruhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JEH-rihl, at 13.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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