Jersey
Jersey is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 128 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1280.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2010232 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1985
- 4,467people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,874 girls have been named Jersey in the United States since 1985, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2010, with 232 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2011, and the 2010s alone account for 41%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 593 boys have also been given it, 13% of the total.
By decade
In 2010, its biggest year
Jersey was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2010 were Isabella, Sophia, Emma, Olivia and Ava. See all of 2010.
Names that rose and fell with Jersey
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ramiyahpeak 2004
- Sanaipeak 2008
- Amariepeak 2006
- Kamayapeak 2008
- Campbellpeak 2006
- Kaniyahpeak 2010
- Avaripeak 2006
- Nariahpeak 2009
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.