as a First Name
As a boy's name this is a pet form of Jeremy or Gerald, or occasionally of Gerard and Jerome. As a girl's name it is a variant spelling of Gerry, and is sometimes bestowed as an independent given name, as in the case of the American model and actress Jerry Hall (b. 1956).
| 86th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 604,387
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 615,804
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Arkansas
- has the most people named Jerry per capita
- 1941
- marked the height of its popularity
2%
98%
57%
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55+
34%
30-54
30-54
5%
13-29
13-29
4%
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