Jerry

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Jerry is a given name, with more bearers in the Czechia than in any other country. In Singapore it is the 19th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: , As a boy’s name this is a pet form of bJeremy or Gerald, or occasionally of Gerard and pJerome.

rarermore common
  • SGSingapore1 in 646◐
  • CACanada1 in 783
  • PHPhilippines1 in 805

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈971K ●

across 9 countries

#494 ●

of 16M given names

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
540 ●

5.1M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 18 ◐

Czechia

Spellings & scripts●

JerryLatin · English●5M records
יריHebrew · Hebrew●131 records

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

, As a boy’s name this is a pet form of bJeremy or Gerald, or occasionally of Gerard and pJerome. As a girl’s name it is a variant of Gerry.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Jerry is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia—592,180—1 in 18592K——
US United States#105362,5804.2M rec.1 in 917363KJerry540
PH Philippines#67207,754198K rec.——Jerry140
GB United Kingdom#199175,092174K rec.—6Jerry193
CA Canada#116106,217103K rec.—2Jerry197
AU Australia#31462,39462K rec.—1Jerry182
IT Italy#26832,60733K rec.—1Jerry81
DE Germany#64620,98521K rec.—listedJerry130
SG Singapore#1916,64617K rec.——Jerry98
NG Nigeria#49415,25219K rec.—listedJerry118
CN China—13,55111K rec.——Jerry78
MY Malaysia#38512,32812K rec.——Jerry94

Roughly 592K people in Czechia bear this name (about 1 in 18). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English5M82%
  • Spanish226K4%
  • 114K2%
  • Portuguese113K2%
  • French54K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English5,000,31482%
Spanish226,4454%
113,7922%
Portuguese113,3782%
French53,7401%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Jerry is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name449K records spelled Jerry12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, France, Philippines

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French

    Also written Jerrÿ, Jêrry, Jërry, Jërrÿ, Jérry

  • Indonesian given name31K records spelled Jerry4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay, Malagasy

    Also written 'Jerry

  • Hindi given name28K records spelled Jerry22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Philippines

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Sinhala

    Also written Jeri, Jari, Jerri, Jery, জেরি

  • Polish given name26K records spelled Jerry42 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Gerry, Jerri, Джерри, Gerri, Джеррі

  • a separate given name17K records spelled Jerry6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, China, India, Philippines

    Also written Jērry, Jerrý, J̶e̶r̶r̶y̶, Jërrẙ, Jërry

68 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Jerry is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Probably also an altered spelling of Scottish Gerrie, Gerry, shortened forms of Garioch.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • from a pet form of the Norman personal name Gerald.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In English, A diminutive of the male given names Gerald, Gerard, Jeremy, Jeremiah, Jared, Jerome, Jermaine, Jerrold, or similar male given names.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, diminutive of Gerald or Jerome

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • English: 1 (m.) Pet form of JEREMY or GERALD , or occasionally of GERARD and JEROME . 2 (f.) A comparatively rare variant of GERRY . Top

    as a word

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.

Over time●

05K10K15K20K19001950200019K · 1947

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Jerry in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
1880136
188197
1882105
1883107
1884121
1885115
1886125
188798
188892
1889110
1890103
1891107
1892117
1893118
1894127
1895102
189694
1897118
1898143
1899111
1900205
1901116
1902148
1903112
1904177
1905177
1906146
1907165
1908198
1909192
1910251
1911238
1912405
1913493
1914649
1915801
1916885
1917861
1918986
1919917
19201,043
19211,114
19221,197
19231,276
19241,466
19251,625
19261,934
19272,215
19282,588
19292,991
19303,891
19314,371
19325,303
19336,066
19347,134
19358,452
19369,271
193710,301
193812,172
193913,729
194015,213
194116,799
194217,488
194317,730
194416,282
194514,704
194617,567
194718,794
194816,809
194915,871
195015,261
195115,164
195214,438
195313,901
195413,681
195512,975
195612,623
195713,283
195812,917
195912,324
196011,835
196111,381
196210,576
196310,189
19649,606
19659,015
19668,429
19677,780
19687,450
19697,283
19707,422
19716,572
19725,597
19735,097
19744,664
19754,311
19764,070
19773,745
19783,427
19793,446
19803,189
19813,056
19822,942
19832,757
19842,457
19852,423
19862,267
19872,233
19882,266
19892,165
19902,186
19911,999
19921,769
19931,727
19941,615
19951,516
19961,609
19971,458
19981,398
19991,300
20001,251
20011,256
20021,041
20031,089
20041,088
20051,046
20061,010
2007996
20081,049
2009820
2010750
2011724
2012620
2013636
2014656
2015603
2016597
2017496
2018455
2019381
2020457
2021354
2022341
2023287
2024279
2025262

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Jerry Lewis, b. 1926Jerry Herman, b. 1931Jerry Brown, b. 1938Jerry West, b. 1938Jerry Bruckheimer, b. 1943Jerry Zucker, b. 1950Jerry Hall, b. 1956Jerry Yang, b. 1968Jerry Ferrara, b. 1979Nick Jonas, b. 1992
  • Jerry Lewisb. 1926USAmerican comedian, actor and film director (1926–2017)
  • Jerry Hermanb. 1931USAmerican composer and lyricist (1931-2019)
  • Jerry Brownb. 1938USGovernor of California from 1975 to 1983 and 2011 to 2019 (born 1938)
  • Jerry Westb. 1938USAmerican basketball player and executive (1938-2024)
  • Jerry Bruckheimerb. 1943USAmerican film and television producer (born 1943)
  • Jerry Zuckerb. 1950USAmerican director and producer
  • Jerry Hallb. 1956USAmerican model
  • Jerry Yangb. 1968USfounder of Yahoo!
  • Jerry Ferrarab. 1979USAmerican actor
  • Nick Jonasb. 1992USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer, actor and musician

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 101 sources across 63 countries.

Official registers attesting Jerry
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020363K#132
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20207K#132
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—5.7K#569
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20225.7K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—5.6K#2,522
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—4.9K#3,436
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20203.6K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.7K#11,697
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.6K#11,459
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.5K#11,428
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—2.5K#1,208
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20242.2K#454

Reference works 7

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname 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 2026-09-12 data build · 755 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Jerry?
We estimate roughly 971 thousand people bear Jerry (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Jerry have the most bearers?
We estimate about 592 thousand people bear Jerry in the Czechia, more than in any other country in our records.
Where is Jerry most common?
Jerry is densest in the Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 18 people carrying it.
How common is Jerry compared with other names?
In Singapore, Jerry is the 19th most common given name of 46,862 given names recorded there.
Is Jerry a male or female name?
Jerry is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Jerry mean?
Recorded meaning: , As a boy’s name this is a pet form of bJeremy or Gerald, or occasionally of Gerard and pJerome.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Jerry” — the 19th most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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