Meaning not yet researched.
Jeri: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #299 in 1956.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #299 in 1956; #12,474 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jeri in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,474 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1956, at #299.
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Jeri: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 girls in 2025. Peak: #299 in 1956 · most girls in one year: 915 (1957).
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Jeri, making it the 12,474th most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,264 places from #9,210 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 11 girls named Jeri in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #299, reached in 1956. The most girls given the name in a single year was 915, in 1957. For comparison, it was #11,321 in 2015 and #404 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jeri in 106 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 8 babies. In all, 23,014 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 1.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 7,464 babies named Jeri.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 117 US girls were named Jeri; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 19. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jerrie (5,596 babies since 1880), Jerry (632,416 babies since 1880), Jerri (15,785 babies since 1880) and Jeriah (2,477 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jyrie and Jiri are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jyrie (25), Jiri (16).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jeri in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,474 | — | — |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,210 | — | — |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,700 | — | — |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,815 | — | — |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,313 | — | — |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,371 | — | — |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,281 | — | — |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,646 | — | — |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,047 | — | — |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,266 | — | — |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,321 | — | — |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,393 | — | — |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,509 | — | — |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,985 | — | — |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,961 | — | — |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,339 | — | — |
| 2009 | 23 | #5,982 | — | — |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,240 | — | — |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,299 | — | — |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,623 | — | — |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,153 | — | — |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,281 | — | — |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,464 | — | — |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,328 | — | — |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,891 | — | — |
| 2000 | 57 | #2,611 | — | — |
| 1999 | 51 | #2,712 | — | — |
| 1998 | 60 | #2,350 | — | — |
| 1997 | 67 | #2,107 | — | — |
| 1996 | 66 | #2,095 | — | — |
| 1995 | 68 | #2,015 | — | — |
| 1994 | 93 | #1,628 | — | — |
| 1993 | 84 | #1,757 | — | — |
| 1992 | 112 | #1,439 | — | — |
| 1991 | 116 | #1,388 | — | — |
| 1990 | 116 | #1,366 | 5 | #8,733 |
| 1989 | 119 | #1,318 | — | — |
| 1988 | 126 | #1,199 | — | — |
| 1987 | 138 | #1,102 | — | — |
| 1986 | 148 | #1,024 | — | — |
| 1985 | 203 | #811 | — | — |
| 1984 | 213 | #759 | 5 | #6,779 |
| 1983 | 195 | #798 | — | — |
| 1982 | 224 | #746 | — | — |
| 1981 | 212 | #771 | 9 | #4,315 |
| 1980 | 234 | #716 | 9 | #4,296 |
| 1979 | 262 | #665 | — | — |
| 1978 | 248 | #653 | 6 | #5,387 |
| 1977 | 291 | #593 | — | — |
| 1976 | 265 | #602 | 5 | #5,998 |
| 1975 | 292 | #568 | — | — |
| 1974 | 313 | #537 | — | — |
| 1973 | 328 | #516 | 8 | #3,871 |
| 1972 | 337 | #511 | — | — |
| 1971 | 437 | #462 | 7 | #4,155 |
| 1970 | 471 | #457 | — | — |
| 1969 | 492 | #436 | — | — |
| 1968 | 475 | #437 | 8 | #3,227 |
| 1967 | 599 | #370 | 7 | #3,395 |
| 1966 | 551 | #388 | 9 | #2,875 |
| 1965 | 473 | #434 | 7 | #3,390 |
| 1964 | 571 | #408 | 8 | #3,152 |
| 1963 | 604 | #391 | 10 | #2,758 |
| 1962 | 627 | #376 | 5 | #4,331 |
| 1961 | 717 | #355 | 5 | #4,346 |
| 1960 | 757 | #348 | 15 | #2,167 |
| 1959 | 858 | #318 | 17 | #2,007 |
| 1958 | 855 | #313 | 16 | #2,064 |
| 1957 | 915 | #300 | 11 | #2,555 |
| 1956 | 893 | #299 | 16 | #2,048 |
| 1955 | 845 | #302 | 14 | #2,180 |
| 1954 | 771 | #303 | 11 | #2,528 |
| 1953 | 683 | #313 | 12 | #2,342 |
| 1952 | 649 | #317 | 17 | #1,901 |
| 1951 | 473 | #373 | 8 | #2,946 |
| 1950 | 392 | #404 | 8 | #2,892 |
| 1949 | 358 | #416 | 9 | #2,702 |
| 1948 | 302 | #460 | 8 | #2,894 |
| 1947 | 392 | #408 | 10 | #2,582 |
| 1946 | 328 | #425 | 8 | #2,800 |
| 1945 | 252 | #449 | 18 | #1,603 |
| 1944 | 198 | #513 | 9 | #2,545 |
| 1943 | 189 | #547 | 5 | #3,782 |
| 1942 | 217 | #504 | 15 | #1,908 |
| 1941 | 122 | #644 | 7 | #3,001 |
| 1940 | 78 | #804 | 9 | #2,574 |
| 1939 | 87 | #731 | 9 | #2,534 |
| 1938 | 73 | #827 | — | — |
| 1937 | 59 | #898 | 6 | #3,330 |
| 1936 | 58 | #898 | — | — |
| 1935 | 72 | #801 | 6 | #3,442 |
| 1934 | 41 | #1,113 | — | — |
| 1933 | 38 | #1,150 | — | — |
| 1932 | 33 | #1,281 | — | — |
| 1931 | 23 | #1,613 | — | — |
| 1930 | 18 | #1,981 | — | — |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,244 | — | — |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,594 | — | — |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,709 | — | — |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,160 | — | — |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,228 | — | — |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,736 | — | — |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,827 | — | — |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,650 | — | — |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,162 | — | — |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,664 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).