girls:
140 births since 2001
#5576 (2nd percentile)
boys:
177 births since 1968
#4409 (4th percentile)
overall:
317 births since 1968
#7422 (4th percentile)
The name Jerzy is the #7,422 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 317 recorded births since 1968. This represents the 4.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,409 (3.8% percentile) for all time with 177 births since 1968. For girls, it ranks #5,576 (2.4% percentile) for all time with 140 births since 2001.
Jerzy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1968 (1968 for boys and 2001 for girls). Birth data for Jerzy is available in 30 out of the 56 years between 1968 and 2023 (23 years for boys and 18 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 Jerzy has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (55.8% of all recorded births). In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Jerzy were boys.
For boys, Jerzy reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #870) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Jerzy ranks #905 for boys (0.7% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 82.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jerzy reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #976) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jerzy".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Jerzy. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Jerzy is pronounced as JER-zee, which has 2 syllables.
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