Jerry

What Jerry means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Jerry yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1947, with 18,794 babies; 262 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Jerry?

US: Falling: down from #487 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #1095 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1941, when 16,799 boys got the name (#14 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 6,519 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 18,129 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in AR (0.48 per 1,000 boys), OK (0.4 per 1,000 boys), IN (0.38 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Jerry is #906 in the US and #1705 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Jerry were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Jory22 US
• Gerry8 US · 9 E&W
• Jaray6 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Jerry

Boys

• Daniel#22“God is my judge”^*
• David#35“beloved”^*
• Christopher#68“carrier of Christ”^*
• Eric#273Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1970, with 23,571 babies; 1,256 in 2025
• Jonathan#89“God has given”^*
• Joseph#29“(God) shall add”^*

For a sister

• Samantha#151“listener”^*
• Katherine#186Variant of Catherine, possibly meaning “each of the two”^*
• Andrea#235Feminine form of Andreas, meaning “manly”^*
• Elizabeth#17“my God is an oath”^*
• Alexandra#237“to defend + man”^*
• Sarah#90“masters, princes”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Jerry’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.