Jersey
#1,388 for girls in 2025, 157 births · #2,718 for boys in 2025, 47 births
Given to girls 86.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2010 · 232 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,031since 1985
Jersey over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,388 | 157 | #2,718 | 47 |
| 2024 | #1,622 | 128 | #2,527 | 53 |
| 2023 | #1,586 | 132 | #2,660 | 49 |
| 2022 | #1,515 | 143 | #2,355 | 60 |
| 2021 | #1,469 | 146 | #2,918 | 42 |
| 2020 | #1,327 | 166 | #2,323 | 58 |
| 2019 | #1,423 | 157 | #2,582 | 50 |
| 2018 | #1,532 | 142 | #3,793 | 28 |
| 2017 | #1,552 | 141 | #4,105 | 25 |
| 2016 | #1,605 | 137 | #7,605 | 10 |
| 2015 | #1,532 | 146 | #8,040 | 9 |
| 2014 | #1,576 | 137 | #7,048 | 11 |
| 2013 | #1,446 | 155 | #5,404 | 16 |
| 2012 | #1,612 | 134 | #8,864 | 8 |
| 2011 | #1,224 | 196 | #6,256 | 13 |
| 2010 | #1,070 | 232 | #7,591 | 10 |
| 2009 | #1,143 | 222 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #1,151 | 223 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #1,166 | 218 | #7,094 | 11 |
| 2006 | #1,110 | 225 | #5,781 | 14 |
| 2005 | #1,121 | 210 | #8,299 | 8 |
| 2004 | #1,308 | 163 | #4,421 | 19 |
| 2003 | #1,561 | 123 | #4,815 | 16 |
| 2002 | #1,671 | 110 | #5,131 | 14 |
| 2001 | #2,512 | 61 | #6,935 | 9 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #6,839 | 9 |
| 1999 | — | #9,912 | 5 | |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 | #8,479 | 6 |
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| 1996 | — | #9,015 | 5 | |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #8,868 | 5 |
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| 1992 | — | #6,670 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jersey! It came in at #10,677, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1985–1997, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Jersey
- 234 spots since 2024 (#1,622 → #1,388)
- 61 spots since 2020 (#1,327 → #1,388)
- 144 spots since 2015 (#1,532 → #1,388)
- Debuted 1985
- Peaked 2010 at #1,070 (232 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 7,662 girls born in 2010 were named Jersey (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,237 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 39.1% of all girls named Jersey (1,577) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2000, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #10,677 (1985) | #10,677 |
| 1990s | 16 | #12,426 (1998) | #13,081 |
| 2000s | 1,561 | #1,110 (2006) | #2,590 |
| 2010s | 1,577 | #1,070 (2010) | #1,457 |
| 2020s | 872 | #1,327 (2020) | #1,485 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jersey in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 8,480 of them was named Jersey, which outranked 94.4% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,145Nicolette224
- #1,145Sheila224
- #1,145Sofie224
- #1,151Jersey223
- #1,151Addie223
- #1,151Alanah223
- #1,151Gisele223
- #1,157Anais222
- #1,157Graciela222
- #1,157Tina222
Tied with 5 names at #1,151; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 340,025 of them was named Jersey, which outranked 24.5% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #9,871Zymeer7
- #9,871Zymier7
- #9,871Zymiere7
- #11,037Jersey6
- #11,037Aadam6
- #11,037Aariv6
- #11,037Aaroosh6
- #12,553Aadith5
- #12,553Aahron5
- #12,553Aakarsh5
Tied with 1,515 names at #11,037; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.