Given name
Jerrie
“a holy man; having great strength”·“one who rules with the spear”
Jerrie is a variant of Jerry. One Greek interpretation is “a holy man; having great strength.” Jerrie is a variant of Jeraldine. In English use, Jeraldine carries the interpretation “one who rules with the spear.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Jerrie is a variant of Jerry. One Greek interpretation is “a holy man; having great strength.” Jerrie is a variant of Jeraldine. In English use, Jeraldine carries the interpretation “one who rules with the spear.”
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In English usage, Jerrie is a diminutive of Geraldine. In English usage, Jerrie is a diminutive of GERALDYN.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. In English use, Jerrie is a diminutive of Geraldine. The history of Geraldine gives this family its wider story. The Earl of Surrey created Geraldine in the sixteenth century in a poem praising Lady Fitzgerald. Geraldine remained little used for a time before becoming more established in the eighteenth century.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Jerrie through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5,596
- 345 boys · 5,251 girls
- Most popular year
- 1946
- 180 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2007. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 167 in 1946. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,580 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jerrie’s family of names
In English usage, Jerrie is a diminutive of Geraldine. Jerrie has a related form in Jerry. Jerrie has a related form in Jeraldine.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Jerrie
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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