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Jeryl

girls’ name · 56%boys’ name · 44%FadedCompare

Jeryl is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 770th, in 1955.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
1955155 births
Best rank
#770in 1955
Since 1931
1,831people given the name
Babies named Jeryl, by year of birthgirlsboys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

1,029 girls have been named Jeryl in the United States since 1931, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1955, with 155 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 155 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1955, and the 1950s alone account for 56%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Jeryl is used for both sexes: 44% of its bearers are boys (802), most of them born around 1952.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadegirls named Jeryl
1930s29
1940s145
1950s577
1960s250
1970s28

In 1955, its biggest year

Jeryl was the 770th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1955 were Mary, Deborah, Linda, Debra and Susan. See all of 1955.

Names that rose and fell with Jeryl

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.