Jerika

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 12 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
12
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Jerika by the numbers

Jerika was given to 12 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 106 babies in 1988, so it is a 1980s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Jerika

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Jerika. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Jesikagod beholds; variant of Jessica7 in the US (2017)
  • Jenika7 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Jerica11 in the US (2017)
  • Jerrika5 in the US (2017)
  • Jemimadove90 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Jessikavariant of Jessica; God beholds20 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Jerika

Names that are said the same way as Jerika, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

Names about as common as Jerika

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