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Jerica

#13,945 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Jerica has been given to 3,914 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #13,945 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1988, with 341 recorded.

Babies named Jerica, 2025

1 in 553,000

Jerica 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jerica: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jerica means

Jerica is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Jerica is used in Slovene.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Slovene, Jerica is pronounced /jéːrit͡sa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,914 girls were recorded with the name Jerica between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 341 in 1988; its best national rank was #592 in 1988.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #11,532 in 2020 to #13,945 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,668 in 2015 to #13,945 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 Jerica?

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
#13,945
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jerica 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 Jerica. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jericas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jerica was born before 1991 — so the typical Jerica is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
42.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,914
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 42.1% of all recorded uses (1,649).

Is Jerica 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
−1,221
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,413
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,277
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.46×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
1.8%
Peak was 1988 (341)
Years since peak
37
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#592
1988

Spellings of Jerica

Jerica is not the most common spelling — Jessica is, with 68.6% against Jerica's 0.26%.

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 Jerica is used

Across 1910–2025, Jerica was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 69,233 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 25,000
  2. 2Tennessee1 in 25,000
  3. 3Hawaii1 in 33,333
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 33,333
  5. 5Missouri1 in 33,333
  6. 6Utah1 in 33,333
  7. 7Colorado1 in 50,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 50,000

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. Jerica has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jerica around the world

Where Jerica ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–1996
    #3,795
    in 1996
  • Canada
    1991–2008
    #2,486
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    2004–2004
    #700
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Jerica

People whose public names include Jerica, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jerica in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Jerica. Linked forms have their own page here.

GeraJeraEricaJerricaJedrtJercaGertruda

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Jerica by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,945
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,413
Best rank ever
#592
1988
Peak year
1988
341 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,914
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Jerica

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

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Names with a curve like Jerica

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jerica, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Jerica

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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