Jerica

Where Jerica comes from

Jerica 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. 1945
    Jerica Mrzel born
    Slovene actress and politician
  2. 1970
    First appearance
    #7,070 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1988
    Peak, #591
    341 babies named Jerica — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1994
    Jerica Tandiman born
    American speed skater
  5. 1995
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,370.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Jerica Mrzel · Slovene actress and politician, born 1945
  • Jerica Tandiman · American speed skater, born 1994
  • Jerica Bukovec · born 1980

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.