# Jeri (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/jeri/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 23,014 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 377 / 22,637 (98% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 15, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 15 | 7,961 |
| 2012 | 18 | 6,985 |
| 2013 | 8 | 12,509 |
| 2014 | 9 | 11,393 |
| 2015 | 9 | 11,321 |
| 2016 | 9 | 11,266 |
| 2017 | 14 | 8,047 |
| 2018 | 18 | 6,646 |
| 2019 | 19 | 6,281 |
| 2020 | 15 | 7,371 |
| 2021 | 5 | 16,313 |
| 2022 | 7 | 12,815 |
| 2023 | 12 | 8,700 |
| 2024 | 11 | 9,210 |
| 2025 | 7 | 12,474 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 5 | 4,331 |
| 1963 | 10 | 2,758 |
| 1964 | 8 | 3,152 |
| 1965 | 7 | 3,390 |
| 1966 | 9 | 2,875 |
| 1967 | 7 | 3,395 |
| 1968 | 8 | 3,227 |
| 1971 | 7 | 4,155 |
| 1973 | 8 | 3,871 |
| 1976 | 5 | 5,998 |
| 1978 | 6 | 5,387 |
| 1980 | 9 | 4,296 |
| 1981 | 9 | 4,315 |
| 1984 | 5 | 6,779 |
| 1990 | 5 | 8,733 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 8 | 1,958 |
| 1998 | 4 | 3,142 |
| 2002 | 3 | 4,137 |

## People named Jeri

- Jeri Ryan, American actress
- Jeri Ellsworth, American entrepreneur and self-taught computer chip designer
- Jeri Taylor, American screenwriter (1938–2024)
- Jeri Brown, American jazz singer, songwriter, and professor

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.