Jerl
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jerl has been given to 178 babies in the U.S. since 1915. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1944, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Jerl, 1969
1 in 695,000
Jerl over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Jerl?
Jerl had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1969, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1969
- 1 in 695,000
- 5 of 3,475,126 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 358,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1969
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 481,756 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jerl sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1969 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 481,756 children born in 1969 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jerl. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jerls were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jerl was born before 1944 — so the typical Jerl is around 81 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 27.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 48.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 74
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 27.0% of all recorded uses (48).
Is Jerl 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1944 (12)
- Years since peak
- 81
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.1% average annual change
Spellings of Jerl
Jerl is not the most common spelling — Jerry is, with 25.7% against Jerl's <0.01%.
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.
Jerl by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jerl
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jerl
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.