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Jerilynn

Jerilynn reached its high-water mark in 1942 at number 581, and has been recorded 1,286 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 1,000 Jerilynns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 62.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Jerilynn

By the numbers

Total US births
1,286
Estimated living today
1,000
Median age today
62
Peak year
1942
Best rank
581st
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1941

How old the living Jerilynns are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,286 babies given the name since 1941, about 1,000 are alive — 78 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1963 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Jerilynn is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Jerilynn is most concentrated in Ohio (3.0×), Illinois (2.8×), New York (2.6×), Michigan (2.3×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1942

The most popular girls’ names the year Jerilynn peaked:

All the names of 1942

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Jerilynn against another name

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.