How popular is the name Jeri?

Jeri ranks 439th among girls' names in US records, with 74,167 births since 1899. Over the past decade it accounts for 226.

Is Jeri a unisex name?

No. Jeri is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1957, when 2,208 children were given the name. It has been in use for 126 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Jerry, Jerri, Gerry, Gerri, Jerrie, Gerrie. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#439 of girl names

Pronounced JH EH1 R IY0 (ARPABET)

Jeri is a girls' name, and first appears in 1899. It has been given to 74,167 children — the 439th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 226 births across the past decade, against a peak of 2,208 in a single year. That peak was in 1957.

Six other spellings are counted in that total — Jerry, Jerri, Gerry and three more — because they are pronounced identically.

19572,208

These spellings sound identical to Jeri and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Jeri?: Jeri ranks 439th among girls' names in US records, with 74,167 births since 1899. Over the past decade it accounts for 226.
Is Jeri a unisex name?: No. Jeri is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Jeri most popular?: 1957, when 2,208 children were given the name. It has been in use for 126 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Jeri spelled?: Jerry, Jerri, Gerry, Gerri, Jerrie, Gerrie. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.