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Jerusha

#11,353 in 2025Girls' name

Inheritance, through ירושה

Jerusha has been given to 1,197 babies in the U.S. since 1882. In 2025 it ranked #11,353 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1975, with 52 recorded.

Babies named Jerusha, 2025

1 in 414,000

Jerusha over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jerusha: meaning, origin, and history

Inheritance, through ירושה

Hebrew

What Jerusha means

Jerusha belongs to the name family reached through Jerusha → ירושה. Its meaning is “inheritance”.

Origin, language, and formation

Jerusha is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Jerusha comes through Hebrew ירושה.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include ירושה.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,197 girls were recorded with the name Jerusha between 1882 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 52 in 1975; its best national rank was #968 in 1882.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,636 in 2020 to #11,353 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #11,319 in 2015 to #11,353 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jerusha?

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
#11,353
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jerusha 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 Jerusha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jerushas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jerusha was born before 1982 — so the typical Jerusha is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
24.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,021
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Choose a decade

1970s — 24.8% of all recorded uses (297).

Is Jerusha 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
−2,146
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−717
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−34
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.89×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
15.4%
Peak was 1975 (52)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#968
1882

Spellings of Jerusha

Jerusha is not the most common spelling — Jesusa is, with 61.3% against Jerusha's 38.7%.

  • Jesusa61.3%1,897
  • Jerusha38.7%1,197

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 Jerusha is used

Across 1910–2025, Jerusha was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 568,158 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Georgia1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —
  4. 4Utah1 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. Jerusha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jerusha around the world

Where Jerusha 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
    1996–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2019
    #2,941
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1968–2009
    #818
    in 2009

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.

Jerusha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,353
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 717
Best rank ever
#968
1882
Peak year
1975
52 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,197
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Jerusha

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

JeralynJermaniJerishaJermeshaJermishaJerichoJermanyJeremiahJerlineJerricaKalishaJerzieJerelynJerilynJersieJerleneAnaishaJeriyahJerzeeAlayshaJerzeyJerleanJerieshaAlaisha

Sibling names for Jerusha

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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