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Jerrica

#11,351 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jerrica has been given to 4,491 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #11,351 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1988, with 437 recorded.

Babies named Jerrica, 2025

1 in 414,000

Jerrica over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jerrica: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jerrica means

Jerrica is a given name.

The naming story behind Jerrica

Wikidata records Jerrica as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q134957557, 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, 4,491 girls were recorded with the name Jerrica between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 437 in 1988; its best national rank was #506 in 1988.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,635 in 2020 to #11,351 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,368 in 2015 to #11,351 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.

How common is Jerrica?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,351
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jerrica 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jerrica. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jerricas were born

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

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
44.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,491
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 44.2% of all recorded uses (1,985).

Is Jerrica 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
−716
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,983
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.32×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
1.8%
Peak was 1988 (437)
Years since peak
37
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
25.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#506
1988

Spellings of Jerrica

Jerrica is not the most common spelling — Jessica is, with 79.0% against Jerrica's 0.34%.

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 Jerrica is used

Across 1910–2025, Jerrica was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 51,724 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 11,111
  2. 2Tennessee1 in 12,500
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 20,000
  4. 4Alabama1 in 25,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 25,000
  6. 6Indiana1 in 25,000
  7. 7Kentucky1 in 25,000
  8. 8Arkansas1 in 33,333

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

Jerrica around the world

Where Jerrica 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
    2017–2017
    #4,763
    in 2017
  • Canada
    1991–2013
    #2,840
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    1992–1992
    #704
    in 1992

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.

Jerrica in other languages

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

JericaJerca

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

Jerrica by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,351
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 716
Best rank ever
#506
1988
Peak year
1988
437 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,491
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Jerrica

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

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Names with a curve like Jerrica

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

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Sibling names for Jerrica

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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