Jerry
Jerry is ranked 867th among boys in 2024 (277 births). Its best rank was 14th, in 1940–1941.
- Rank in 2024
- #867down 21 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2770.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 194718,791 births
- Best rank
- #14first in 1940
- Since 1880
- 632,139people given the name
The story in the numbers
614,825 boys have been named Jerry in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 18,791 births — 1.0% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 277 births in 2024, against 18,791 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1952, and the 1940s alone account for 27%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 58 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 17,314 girls have also been given it, 2.7% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Jerry | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,106 | |
| 1890s | 1,140 | |
| 1900s | 1,636 | |
| 1910s | 6,486 | |
| 1920s | 17,449 | |
| 1930s | 80,689 | |
| 1940s | 167,250 | |
| 1950s | 136,571 | |
| 1960s | 93,540 | |
| 1970s | 48,351 | |
| 1980s | 25,757 | |
| 1990s | 16,577 | |
| 2000s | 10,643 | |
| 2010s | 5,915 | |
| 2020s | 1,715 |
In 1947, its biggest year
Jerry was the 20th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1947 were James, Robert, John, William and Richard. See all of 1947.
Names that rose and fell with Jerry
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ronaldpeak 1947
- Jimmypeak 1947
- Rogerpeak 1953
- Jeraldpeak 1942
- Jeroldpeak 1942
- Tommypeak 1947
- Larypeak 1946
- Rondalpeak 1947
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.