How Many People Are Named Jeri?

19,074

people named Jeri are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 17,918 people in the US has this name

Based on 23,014 babies named Jeri in Social Security records from 1918 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,670

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#903

See the top 100

Peak Year

1957

926 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: JER-ee
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of JERRY.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Jeri in English. Counting Jeri and these spellings together, about 36,105 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
98.7%
Male
1.3%

Of the babies given the name Jeri, 98.7% were girls and 1.3% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1930s: 96% of the babies were girls then and 100% in the 2010s.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Jeri alive today is about 59 years old, and 57% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 52 and 69 in 2025.

Under 30 755
4%
30 to 59 7,369
38.6%
60 and over 10,950
57.4%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Jeri first appears in the records in 1918 and was given most often in 1957, to 926 babies. In 2025, 7 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1918 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Jeri has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #299, in 1956. In 2025 it ranked #12,469.

Girls
Rank in 2025#12,469
Best rank#299 (1956)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#316 in the 1950s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Jeri alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Jeri were born in California than in any other state: about 2,392 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Jeri was given 2.9 times as often in Montana, 2.6 times in Utah and 2.4 times in Washington.

California 2,392
Texas 1,297
Illinois 1,089
Ohio 961
Michigan 895
New York 610
Indiana 570
Washington 561
Iowa 480
Florida 445
Wisconsin 418
Missouri 396
Oklahoma 389
Pennsylvania 355
Kansas 350
Minnesota 330
Georgia 312
Oregon 305
Tennessee 296
Louisiana 272
Utah 262
Nebraska 255
North Carolina 254
Kentucky 251
Colorado 239
Alabama 220
Arizona 206
Virginia 191
New Jersey 160
Montana 152
Arkansas 141
Mississippi 128
Idaho 95
South Carolina 91
West Virginia 87
Maryland 80
New Mexico 73
Hawaii 65
Connecticut 42
Massachusetts 33
Wyoming 30
North Dakota 27
South Dakota 26
Maine 18
Nevada 16
District of Columbia 8

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