Meaning not yet researched.
Jerilyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #397 in 1942.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #397 in 1942; #12,475 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jerilyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,475 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1942, at #397.
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Jerilyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 girls in 2025. Peak: #397 in 1942 · most girls in one year: 325 (1942).
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Jerilyn, making it the 12,475th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #397, reached in 1942. That year also had the most girls given the name: 325. For comparison, it was #6,127 in 2015 and #910 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jerilyn in 88 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1931 with 6 babies. In all, 5,251 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 1,460 babies named Jerilyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 59 US girls were named Jerilyn; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 11. 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 Jerrilyn (1,277 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jeralyn, Jerilynn and Jerelyn 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: Jeralyn (1,334), Jerilynn (1,286), Jerelyn (957), Jerolyn (544), Jerrilynn (373), Jeralynn (107), Jerrolyn (24), Jerralyn (14), Jerilynne (13), Jerrilyne (9), Jerelin (6), Jerilene (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 Jerilyn 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 | #12,475 | — | — |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,816 | — | — |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,315 | — | — |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,539 | — | — |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,831 | — | — |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,731 | — | — |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,600 | — | — |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,250 | — | — |
| 2015 | 21 | #6,127 | — | — |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,394 | — | — |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,862 | — | — |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,356 | — | — |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,963 | — | — |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,772 | — | — |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,857 | — | — |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,841 | — | — |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,676 | — | — |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,701 | — | — |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,302 | — | — |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,449 | — | — |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,495 | — | — |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,759 | — | — |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,268 | — | — |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,805 | — | — |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,934 | — | — |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,234 | — | — |
| 1997 | 35 | #3,317 | — | — |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,385 | — | — |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,709 | — | — |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,171 | — | — |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,446 | — | — |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,135 | — | — |
| 1991 | 39 | #2,952 | — | — |
| 1990 | 35 | #3,184 | — | — |
| 1989 | 37 | #2,952 | — | — |
| 1988 | 43 | #2,503 | — | — |
| 1987 | 40 | #2,545 | — | — |
| 1986 | 44 | #2,310 | — | — |
| 1985 | 40 | #2,458 | — | — |
| 1984 | 47 | #2,124 | — | — |
| 1983 | 45 | #2,168 | — | — |
| 1982 | 53 | #1,973 | — | — |
| 1981 | 68 | #1,684 | — | — |
| 1980 | 68 | #1,681 | — | — |
| 1979 | 76 | #1,532 | — | — |
| 1978 | 38 | #2,364 | — | — |
| 1977 | 35 | #2,482 | — | — |
| 1976 | 39 | #2,182 | — | — |
| 1975 | 41 | #2,109 | — | — |
| 1974 | 47 | #1,862 | — | — |
| 1973 | 42 | #1,956 | — | — |
| 1972 | 57 | #1,601 | — | — |
| 1971 | 61 | #1,576 | — | — |
| 1970 | 73 | #1,424 | — | — |
| 1969 | 84 | #1,220 | — | — |
| 1968 | 88 | #1,150 | — | — |
| 1967 | 83 | #1,165 | — | — |
| 1966 | 117 | #941 | — | — |
| 1965 | 87 | #1,139 | — | — |
| 1964 | 120 | #967 | — | — |
| 1963 | 115 | #994 | — | — |
| 1962 | 156 | #844 | — | — |
| 1961 | 111 | #1,040 | — | — |
| 1960 | 87 | #1,169 | — | — |
| 1959 | 103 | #1,052 | — | — |
| 1958 | 120 | #942 | — | — |
| 1957 | 85 | #1,148 | — | — |
| 1956 | 130 | #876 | — | — |
| 1955 | 114 | #922 | — | — |
| 1954 | 138 | #799 | — | — |
| 1953 | 106 | #917 | — | — |
| 1952 | 104 | #908 | — | — |
| 1951 | 119 | #821 | — | — |
| 1950 | 96 | #910 | — | — |
| 1949 | 114 | #820 | — | — |
| 1948 | 112 | #822 | — | — |
| 1947 | 161 | #661 | — | — |
| 1946 | 145 | #660 | — | — |
| 1945 | 116 | #693 | — | — |
| 1944 | 160 | #581 | — | — |
| 1943 | 182 | #558 | — | — |
| 1942 | 325 | #397 | — | — |
| 1941 | 135 | #609 | — | — |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,841 | — | — |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,620 | — | — |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,017 | — | — |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,243 | — | — |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,110 | — | — |
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).