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Jeralyn

#13,944 in 2025Girls' name

Blend of Jerome and Lyn

Jeralyn has been given to 1,334 babies in the U.S. since 1930. In 2025 it ranked #13,944 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1961, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Jeralyn, 2025

1 in 553,000

Jeralyn over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jeralyn: meaning, origin, and history

Blend of Jerome and Lyn

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jeralyn means

Jeralyn is a blend of Jerome and Lyn.

Origin, language, and formation

Jeralyn is used in Cebuano.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jerome and Lyn.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,334 girls were recorded with the name Jeralyn between 1930 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 1961; its best national rank was #1,875 in 1947.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #12,725 in 2020 to #13,944 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #12,331 in 2015 to #13,944 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jeralyn?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,944
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jeralyn sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jeralyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jeralyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jeralyn was born before 1968 — so the typical Jeralyn is around 57 today.

Median birth year
1968
About 57 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
16.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,077
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Choose a decade

1960s — 16.3% of all recorded uses (218).

Is Jeralyn rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,219
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,613
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.75×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
21.4%
Peak was 1961 (28)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,875
1947

Spellings of Jeralyn

Jeralyn is not the most common spelling — Evalyn is, with 14.6% against Jeralyn's 2.0%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Jeralyn is used

Across 1910–2025, Jeralyn was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 862,030 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Colorado1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Oregon1 in —
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in —
  7. 7Wisconsin1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jeralyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jeralyn by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,944
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,219
Best rank ever
#1,875
1947
Peak year
1961
28 that year
First recorded
1930
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,334
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Jeralyn

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Jeralyn

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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