Baby name
FADING
🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Jerry
/JEH · ree/
Meaning
“God will exalt”
Short form of Jeremy, Jerome, or Gerald; ultimately from Hebrew or Germanic roots. A quintessentially mid-century American standalone given name.
Nicknames
jer
Vibe
gentle
How it ages.
The uncle name par excellence - deeply mid-20th century, will take a very long time to feel vintage.
The cultural moment.
Very common in the US from the 1940s-1960s; rare for newborns today.