Jerrica
Feminine
Jerrica Benton was the secret identity of a cartoon rock star, and the American records show exactly when the program aired. The name appears from 1986, peaks in 1988, and fades with the series.
How old is the name Jerrica?
Jerrica first appears in US birth records in 1970 — 55 years ago. The typical Jerrica alive today was born around 1991, making them about 34 years old. About 4,400 people named Jerrica are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jerrica most popular?
Jerrica peaked in 1988, reaching #506 nationally. Today it ranks #10917, 10,411 places below that high. See the whole 1988 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Jerrica
Children's television names differently from adult television. The audience is not the one having children, so the effect appears a decade or more later, unless the parents are watching too, which is the case for a program aired in the afternoon to households with young families. This name went the fast way: the series ran from 1985, the name is essentially absent from the records before it and clearly present from 1986, and it peaks in the final broadcast year. That is about as clean a single-cause curve as the data holds. What makes it useful is the shape rather than the size: a name introduced by one program rises fast, peaks with the exposure and falls immediately afterwards, where a name that enters through a general fashion rises slowly and falls slowly.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Jerrica is an American formation, made for a character in an animated series broadcast from 1985 to 1988. Constructions from Jerry with the -ica ending are plausible but the name has no documented source before the program. The peak is 1988.
Pronouncing Jerrica
JAIR-ih-kuh
Three syllables, stress on the first. Jerrica and Jerica are homophones; the doubled r marks the short vowel.
Nicknames for Jerrica
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1970
- Most girls named
- 1988437 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #506reached in 1988
- Change vs 2023
- +33.3%8 in 2025, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Jerrica in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jerica in English — spelling variant
- Jerrika in English — spelling variant
Jerricas among us
people named Jerrica are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 200,908 born in 2025 was named Jerrica
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jerrica
- #10917
- Jerrica on the 2025 chart
- #946
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jerrica went to 8 girls in 2025, but Jerica is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 14, which makes it the 946th most-given girls’ name of the year — 9,971 places above the chart.
- Jerrica8
- Jerica6
About 1 girl in 114,805 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 200,908 for Jerrica itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Renae test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jerrica's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Renae climbed just as high around 1962, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Renae's path sketches the road Jerrica is walking now.
Jerrica sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Jerrica beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jerrica in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Jerri works as a short form and is a name of its own.
- Three syllables with a firm opening beat.
- The origin is documented to a specific series and year.
- It dates very precisely to the late 1980s.
- It has no meaning to offer.
- Several spellings compete.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jerricas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,400 people named Jerrica are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jerrica?
- Jerrica is the most-used spelling in US records — 8 of the 14 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Jerica.
- How popular is the name Jerrica in 2025?
- Jerrica ranks #10917 among US girl names in 2025, with 8 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jerrica?
- About 1 in every 200,908 US girls born in 2025 was named Jerrica — 8 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jerrica with classmates?
- Jerrica will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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