Jerilyn

Where Jerilyn comes from

The dictionaries list Jerilyn as a given name — a female given name from the Germanic languages, a 20th century variant of Geraldine — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Germanic
Along the way
  1. 1931
    First appearance
    #3,848 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1942
    Peak, #396
    325 babies named Jerilyn — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1944
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #581.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages, a 20th century variant of Geraldine.
Namesakes

No widely known Jerilyn turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.