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Jerrell

#4,935 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jerrell has been given to 7,298 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #4,935 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1989, with 242 recorded.

Babies named Jerrell, 2025

1 in 166,000

Jerrell over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jerrell: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jerrell means

Jerrell is a given name.

The naming story behind Jerrell

Wikidata records Jerrell as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q23823459, 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, 7,207 boys were recorded with the name Jerrell between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 242 in 1989; its best national rank was #609 in 1985.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,759 in 2020 to #4,935 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,542 in 2015 to #4,935 in 2025.

In the United States, 91 girls were recorded with the name Jerrell between 1941 and 1995. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1987; its best national rank was #4,344 in 1942.

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 Jerrell?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 85,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,935
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jerrell 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 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jerrell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jerrells were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jerrell was born before 1986 — so the typical Jerrell is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
22.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
6,019
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Choose a decade

1980s — 22.7% of all recorded uses (1,639).

Is Jerrell 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
+24
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,176
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,393
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.41×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.3%
Peak was 1989 (242)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#609
1985

Spellings of Jerrell

Jerrell is not the most common spelling — Darrell is, with 52.9% against Jerrell's 2.4%.

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 Jerrell is used

Across 1910–2025, Jerrell was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 34,671 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 11,111
  2. 2Georgia1 in 12,500
  3. 3Maryland1 in 16,667
  4. 4Texas1 in 16,667
  5. 5Arkansas1 in 20,000
  6. 6District of Columbia1 in 25,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 25,000
  8. 8Virginia1 in 25,000

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

Jerrell around the world

Where Jerrell 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
    1996–2015
    #2,707
    in 2015
  • Canada
    2007–2007
    #2,209
    in 2007

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

Notable people named Jerrell

People whose public names include Jerrell, 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.

Jerrell by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,935
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,176
Best rank ever
#609
1985
Peak year
1989
242 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,207
Count in 2025
20

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,344
1942
Peak year
1987
7 that year
First recorded
1941
Last recorded
1995
All-time count
91
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jerrell

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

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Names with a curve like Jerrell

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

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Sibling names for Jerrell

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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