Jerusha
Jerusha reached its high-water mark in 1975 at number 1,780, and has been recorded 1,197 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 10,917th. About 1,000 Jerushas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 41.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Jerusha
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,197
- Estimated living today
- 1,000
- Median age today
- 41
- Peak year
- 1975
- Best rank
- 1,780th
- Rank in 2025
- 10,917th
- First recorded
- 1882
How old the living Jerushas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,197 babies given the name since 1882, about 1,000 are alive — 84 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1984 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 the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
From Hebrew ירושה.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where Jerusha is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jerusha is most concentrated in California (7.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1975
The most popular girls’ names the year Jerusha peaked:
Jerusha elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Jerusha | 83 | 3,229th |
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.
Related names
Jerusha against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.