Jeryl

Where Jeryl comes from

The dictionaries list Jeryl as a given name — a unisex given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1931
    First appearance
    #3,497 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1955
    Peak, #768
    155 babies named Jeryl — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1956
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,249.
  4. 1969
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name.
Namesakes

No widely known Jeryl 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.