Jerilyn
Jerilyn is a name with a single cultural origin: English.
- English
Meaning & Origin of Jerilyn
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Jerilyn is a name with a single cultural origin: English.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- English
The Story of Jerilyn
Jerilyn first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1931, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1942: 325 births, good for #396 nationwide. About 28% of every Jerilyn on record arrived during the 1940s, its defining decade. Jerilyn last appeared in the published SSA data in 2022, with 7 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 5K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1930s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Jerilyn
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About the name Jerilyn
Jerilyn is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1931 and has accumulated 5K births in the dataset. Jerilyn's peak popularity came in 1942 when it ranked #396. Use the chart and map above to compare Jerilyn's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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