Jerry
The boy's name Jerry has been in the national records since 1880, with 632,416 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 906th. About 367,000 Jerrys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 66.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Jerry boys named Jerry
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 632,416
- Estimated living today
- 367,000
- Median age today
- 66
- Peak year
- 1947
- Best rank
- 20th
- Rank in 2025
- 906th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 17,314 / 615,102
How old the living Jerrys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 632,416 babies given the name since 1880, about 367,000 are alive — 58 in every hundred. Roughly 9,700 of them are children and 196,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1959 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.
Notable Jerrys
- Jerry Lewis (1926–2017)American comedian, actor and film director
- Jerry Seinfeld (born 1954)American comedian and actor
- Jerry Lee Lewis (1935–2022)American rock 'n' roll musician
- Jerry Goldsmith (1929–2004)American film composer
- Jerry Rawlings (1947–2020)fourth President of the Republic of Ghana
- Jerry West (1938–2024)American basketball player and executive
- Jerry Brown (born 1938)Governor of California from 1975 to 1983 and 2011 to 2019
- Jerry Springer (1944–2023)American television personality and politician
People named Jerry with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jerry is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jerry is most concentrated in Arkansas (2.6×), Oklahoma (2.4×), Mississippi (2.1×), Tennessee (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1947
The most popular boys’ names the year Jerry peaked:
Jerry elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Jerry | 1,590 | 424th |
| England and Wales boys | Jerry | 537 | 1,095th |
| Ireland boys | Jerry | 269 | 309th |
| Belgium boys | Jerry | 34 | 794th |
| England and Wales girls | Jerry | 15 | 2,683rd |
| Scotland boys | Jerry | 6 | 470th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Jerry | 3 | 392nd |
| Scotland girls | Jerry | 3 | 582nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Jerry: rank by region
In 1997, Jerry was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Jerry | 676 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Jerry among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Jerry | 2,473 | 2,937 |
| Finland boys | Jerry | 1,485 | 1,663 |
| the Netherlands girls | Jerry | 18 | 32 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Jerry against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.