Jerri
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A diminutive of the female given names Geraldine and Jerilyn, also used as a formal given name
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female
- Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed as male
- Finland (DVV): listed as male
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Jerri is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 56Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 93K
- ITItaly≈1 in 490K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jerri itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 428 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 56K (inferred from the name graph)
18,868 named Jeri, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Jeri in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A diminutive of the female given names Geraldine and Jerilyn, also used as a formal given name.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jerri counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #853 | 18,868as Jeri | 1 in 18K | 19K | Jeri | 428 |
| IN India | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 389K | 195 | Jeri | 24 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 3 | Jeri | 85 |
| CA Canada | #937 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 5 | Jeri | 87 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,283 | 1 in 93K | 3.1K | — | 1 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Jerri | 15 |
| NZ New Zealand | #781 | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Jeri | 14 |
| IE Ireland | #592 | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Jeri | 7 |
| SG Singapore | #728 | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Jeri | 15 |
18,868 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); the ca-statcan-baby-names register; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Jerri is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In nrm, Jersey
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jerri Southcottb. 1901Canadian actress
- Jerri Nielsenb. 1952USAmerican physician (1952-2009)
- Jerri Allynb. 1954USAmerican artist, educator
- Jerri Bergströmb. 1963SESwedish politician
- Jerri Mantheyb. 1970USAmerican reality television contestant
- Jerri Ariel Farias Hahnb. 1980BRBrazilian footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 12K | #2,135 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 3.1K | #4,583 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 3.1K | #1,744 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 2.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 2.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.2K | #4,675 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 2.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 1.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 1.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 571 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1957 | 565 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jerri mean, and where does it come from?
- A diminutive of the female given names Geraldine and Jerilyn, also used as a formal given name. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Jerri?
- In the etymology graph, Jerry, Geraldine and Gerry are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Jerri a male or female name?
- Jerri is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female; Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed as male; Finland (DVV): listed as male. We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Jerri have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 19 thousand people named Jeri, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Jerri?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,283 people named Jerri in 2022, about 1 in 93 thousand residents.
- How common is Jerri compared with other names?
- In the United States, Jerri is the 853rd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jerriThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jerri” — the 853rd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.