# Jerry (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/jerry/  
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 | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 632,416 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 615,102 / 17,314 (3% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 552, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 17 | 5,523 |
| 1994 | 16 | 5,833 |
| 1995 | 16 | 5,799 |
| 1996 | 12 | 7,333 |
| 1997 | 15 | 6,310 |
| 1998 | 6 | 13,143 |
| 1999 | 9 | 9,841 |
| 2000 | 10 | 9,478 |
| 2001 | 6 | 14,302 |
| 2002 | 7 | 12,793 |
| 2003 | 6 | 14,662 |
| 2004 | 7 | 13,375 |
| 2005 | 5 | 17,641 |
| 2008 | 8 | 13,127 |
| 2017 | 6 | 14,909 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 724 | 393 |
| 2012 | 620 | 444 |
| 2013 | 636 | 449 |
| 2014 | 656 | 452 |
| 2015 | 603 | 488 |
| 2016 | 597 | 503 |
| 2017 | 496 | 554 |
| 2018 | 455 | 600 |
| 2019 | 381 | 676 |
| 2020 | 457 | 601 |
| 2021 | 354 | 729 |
| 2022 | 341 | 751 |
| 2023 | 287 | 848 |
| 2024 | 279 | 866 |
| 2025 | 262 | 907 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 5 | 2,683 |
| 1997 | 4 | 3,174 |
| 1998 | 3 | 3,848 |
| 2000 | 3 | 3,912 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 20 | 1,251 |
| 2012 | 21 | 1,229 |
| 2013 | 24 | 1,086 |
| 2014 | 19 | 1,327 |
| 2015 | 25 | 1,095 |
| 2016 | 21 | 1,271 |
| 2017 | 23 | 1,178 |
| 2018 | 21 | 1,235 |
| 2019 | 17 | 1,439 |
| 2020 | 18 | 1,379 |
| 2021 | 19 | 1,329 |
| 2022 | 20 | 1,314 |
| 2023 | 13 | 1,799 |
| 2024 | 9 | 2,443 |
| 2025 | 15 | 1,705 |

## People named Jerry

- Jerry Lewis, American comedian, actor and film director (1926–2017)
- Jerry Rawlings, fourth President of the Republic of Ghana (1947-2020)
- Jerry West, American basketball player and executive (1938-2024)
- Jerry Bruckheimer, American film and television producer (born 1943)
- Jerry Yang, founder of Yahoo!
- Jerry Stiller, American actor and comedian (1927–2020)
- Jerry O'Connell, American actor
- Jerry Garcia, American guitarist and singer (1942–1995)
- Jerry Lucas, American basketball player
- Jerry Rice, American football player (born 1962)
- Jerry Fodor, American philosopher (1935–2017)
- Jerry Siegel, American co-creator of Superman

## 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.