Jerlene
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jerlene has been given to 924 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 1947, with 38 recorded.
Babies named Jerlene, 1988
1 in 616,000
Jerlene 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Jerlene?
Jerlene had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1988, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1988
- 1 in 616,000
- 6 of 3,694,212 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 297,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1988
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 426,773 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jerlene sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1988 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 426,773 children born in 1988 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jerlene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jerlenes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jerlene was born before 1942 — so the typical Jerlene is around 83 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 33.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 5.4%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 219
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 33.4% of all recorded uses (309).
Is Jerlene 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
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1947 (38)
- Years since peak
- 78
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.7% average annual change
Spellings of Jerlene
Jerlene is not the most common spelling — Darlene is, with 31.5% against Jerlene's 0.14%.
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 Jerlene is used
Across 1910–2025, Jerlene was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 343,241 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Arkansas1 in 100,000
- 2Louisiana1 in 100,000
- 3Mississippi1 in 100,000
- 4North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 5California1 in —
- 6Georgia1 in —
- 7Kentucky1 in —
- 8Tennessee1 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. Jerlene has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jerlene by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jerlene
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jerlene
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.