Jerri

Where Jerri comes from

Jerri hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1924
    First appearance
    #4,002 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1952
    Jerri Nielsen born
    American physician
  3. 1957
    Peak, #381
    565 babies named Jerri — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1970
    Jerri Manthey born
    American reality television contestant
  5. 1974
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #612.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Jerri Manthey · American reality television contestant, born 1970
  • Jerri Nielsen · American physician, 1952–2009
  • Jerri Ariel Farias Hahn · Brazilian footballer, born 1980
  • Jerri Allyn · American artist, educator, born 1954
  • Jerri Bergström · Swedish politician, born 1963

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.