Jerica
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births
- Peak · girls
- 1988 · 341 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,914since 1970
Jerica over time
Rank among girls' names. Jerica has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 |
| 2019 | #9,112 | 11 |
| 2018 | #7,762 | 14 |
| 2017 | #9,341 | 11 |
| 2016 | #7,230 | 16 |
| 2015 | #8,447 | 13 |
| 2014 | #5,993 | 21 |
| 2013 | #7,748 | 15 |
| 2012 | #7,456 | 16 |
| 2011 | #6,564 | 19 |
| 2010 | #5,108 | 27 |
| 2009 | #5,097 | 28 |
| 2008 | #3,779 | 42 |
| 2007 | #3,918 | 40 |
| 2006 | #2,778 | 63 |
| 2005 | #2,607 | 65 |
| 2004 | #2,742 | 59 |
| 2003 | #2,465 | 66 |
| 2002 | #2,113 | 80 |
| 2001 | #2,171 | 75 |
| 2000 | #2,055 | 80 |
| 1999 | #1,828 | 87 |
| 1998 | #1,789 | 87 |
| 1997 | #1,530 | 105 |
| 1996 | #1,288 | 134 |
| 1995 | #1,370 | 120 |
| 1994 | #1,055 | 172 |
| 1993 | #938 | 201 |
| 1992 | #933 | 208 |
| 1991 | #826 | 248 |
| 1990 | #728 | 287 |
| 1989 | #627 | 337 |
| 1988 | #591 | 341 |
| 1987 | #826 | 211 |
| 1986 | #1,093 | 136 |
| 1985 | #1,882 | 59 |
| 1984 | #2,192 | 45 |
| 1983 | #2,135 | 46 |
| 1982 | #2,024 | 51 |
| 1981 | #2,657 | 34 |
| 1980 | #2,800 | 32 |
| 1979 | #2,621 | 34 |
| 1978 | #2,859 | 28 |
| 1977 | #2,909 | 27 |
| 1976 | #3,002 | 24 |
| 1975 | #4,141 | 15 |
| 1974 | #4,227 | 14 |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 |
| 1972 | #5,480 | 9 |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jerica! It came in at #7,070, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1970–1971, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
Where Jerica is popular in 1994
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Tennessee#277 · 1 in 1,826
- Alabama#375 · 1 in 2,334
- Indiana#468 · 1 in 3,278
- Louisiana#487 · 1 in 2,802
- Missouri#628 · 1 in 4,944
Best ever in a state: #173 in Hawaii, 1989.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Tennessee | #277 | 16 | 1 in 1,826 |
| Alabama | #375 | 9 | 1 in 2,334 |
| Indiana | #468 | 10 | 1 in 3,278 |
| Louisiana | #487 | 8 | 1 in 2,802 |
| Missouri | #628 | 6 | 1 in 4,944 |
| Georgia | #677 | 8 | 1 in 5,094 |
| Ohio | #682 | 11 | 1 in 5,879 |
| Illinois | #890 | 10 | 1 in 7,424 |
| Florida | #956 | 9 | 1 in 8,280 |
| Michigan | #1,116 | 5 | 1 in 10,842 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,163 | 5 | 1 in 12,987 |
| Texas | #1,486 | 9 | 1 in 15,109 |
| New York | #1,765 | 6 | 1 in 18,537 |
| California | #2,126 | 9 | 1 in 26,945 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Jerica
- 1,047 spots since 2024 (#12,161 → #13,208)
- 2,118 spots since 2020 (#11,090 → #13,208)
- 4,761 spots since 2015 (#8,447 → #13,208)
- Biggest jump: 267 spots in 1987 (#1,093 → #826)
- Biggest drop: 117 spots in 1994 (#938 → #1,055)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 1988 at #591 (341 births)
- Births halved by 1995, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1987–1993
- Highest: 1 in 5,222 girls born in 1988 were named Jerica (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 42.1% of all girls named Jerica (1,649) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 168 | #2,621 (1979) | #4,807 |
| 1980s | 1,292 | #591 (1988) | #1,683 |
| 1990s | 1,649 | #728 (1990) | #1,229 |
| 2000s | 598 | #2,055 (2000) | #2,973 |
| 2010s | 163 | #5,108 (2010) | #7,476 |
| 2020s | 44 | #10,292 (2021) | #12,055 |
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.
Jerica in 1994
Top girls' names in 1994
More about 1994
girls
1,785,753 girls got a published name in 1994; 1 in 10,382 of them was named Jerica, which outranked 93.3% of the 15,759 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,048Samara174
- #1,053Baylee173
- #1,053Felisha173
- #1,055Jerica172
- #1,055Danae172
- #1,055Delia172
- #1,055Sheridan172
- #1,061Cari171
- #1,061Dara171
- #1,061Joan171
Tied with 5 names at #1,055; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.