Meaning not yet researched.
Jerica: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #592 in 1988.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #592 in 1988; #13,949 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jerica in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#13,949 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1988, at #592.
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Jerica: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 girls in 2025. Peak: #592 in 1988 · most girls in one year: 341 (1988).
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Jerica, making it the 13,949th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,220 places from #12,729 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 7 girls named Jerica in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #592, reached in 1988. That year also had the most girls given the name: 341. For comparison, it was #8,673 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jerica in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 6 babies. In all, 3,914 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,649 babies named Jerica.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 96 US girls were named Jerica; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 16. In 2025 that was about 1 in 267,878 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Erica (232,637 babies since 1880), Jerrica (4,491 babies since 1880) and Jerika (1,457 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jera, Gera and Jerikah 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Slovene. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jera (769), Gera (136), Jerikah (15), Jerikka (7), Jeryka (5).
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 Jerica 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 | 6 | #13,949 | — | — |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,729 | — | — |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,248 | — | — |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,756 | — | — |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,646 | — | — |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,537 | — | — |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,380 | — | — |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,937 | — | — |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,599 | — | — |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,404 | — | — |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,673 | — | — |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,094 | — | — |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,946 | — | — |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,615 | — | — |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,702 | — | — |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,165 | — | — |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,147 | — | — |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,811 | — | — |
| 2007 | 40 | #3,945 | — | — |
| 2006 | 63 | #2,793 | — | — |
| 2005 | 65 | #2,612 | — | — |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,764 | — | — |
| 2003 | 66 | #2,476 | — | — |
| 2002 | 80 | #2,118 | — | — |
| 2001 | 75 | #2,180 | — | — |
| 2000 | 80 | #2,064 | — | — |
| 1999 | 87 | #1,835 | — | — |
| 1998 | 87 | #1,792 | — | — |
| 1997 | 105 | #1,542 | — | — |
| 1996 | 134 | #1,292 | — | — |
| 1995 | 120 | #1,372 | — | — |
| 1994 | 172 | #1,057 | — | — |
| 1993 | 201 | #939 | — | — |
| 1992 | 208 | #936 | — | — |
| 1991 | 248 | #827 | — | — |
| 1990 | 287 | #730 | — | — |
| 1989 | 337 | #627 | — | — |
| 1988 | 341 | #592 | — | — |
| 1987 | 211 | #828 | — | — |
| 1986 | 136 | #1,094 | — | — |
| 1985 | 59 | #1,890 | — | — |
| 1984 | 45 | #2,205 | — | — |
| 1983 | 46 | #2,140 | — | — |
| 1982 | 51 | #2,037 | — | — |
| 1981 | 34 | #2,679 | — | — |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,824 | — | — |
| 1979 | 34 | #2,640 | — | — |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,895 | — | — |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,939 | — | — |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,038 | — | — |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,232 | — | — |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,312 | — | — |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,811 | — | — |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,659 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,841 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,438 | — | — |
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).