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Jerrel

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jerrel has been given to 2,474 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 1987, with 58 recorded.

Babies named Jerrel, 2022

1 in 564,000

Jerrel over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jerrel: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jerrel means

Jerrel is a given name.

The naming story behind Jerrel

Wikidata records Jerrel as a given name. The entity identifier is Q62366872, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,448 boys were recorded with the name Jerrel between 1915 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 58 in 1987; its best national rank was #986 in 1940.

In the United States, 26 girls were recorded with the name Jerrel between 1935 and 1951. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1935; its best national rank was #3,971 in 1935.

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.

How common is Jerrel?

Jerrel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 564,000
6 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 291,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,139 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jerrel sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 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 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jerrel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jerrels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jerrel was born before 1963 — so the typical Jerrel is around 62 today.

Median birth year
1963
About 62 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
14.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,571
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1940s — 14.7% of all recorded uses (361).

Is Jerrel 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 1987 (58)
Years since peak
38
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#986
1940

Spellings of Jerrel

Jerrel is not the most common spelling — Jerry is, with 76.0% against Jerrel's 0.30%.

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 Jerrel is used

Across 1910–2025, Jerrel was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 162,290 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 33,333
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 50,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 50,000
  4. 4Alabama1 in 100,000
  5. 5California1 in —
  6. 6Florida1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Louisiana1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Jerrel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jerrel around the world

Where Jerrel 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
    2005–2005
    #3,849
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Notable people named Jerrel

People whose public names include Jerrel, 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.

Jerrel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#986
1940
Peak year
1987
58 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
2,448
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,971
1935
Peak year
1935
6 that year
First recorded
1935
Last recorded
1951
All-time count
26
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jerrel

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

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Names with a curve like Jerrel

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

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Sibling names for Jerrel

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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