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Jerritt
How to Pronounce Jerritt
Pronounced JEHR-it /ˈdʒɛrɪt/Medium
Meaning: Jerritt is a modern respelling of Jarrett or Gerritt, surname-style forms that descend from the medieval Germanic names Gerard ('brave with a spear') and Gerald ('spear-ruler'). It began as a family surname before being used as a first name, and the double-r, double-t spelling is a later American variant.Low
Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
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History & Origin
Jerritt is one of several phonetic respellings of Jarrett, itself a surname that came from the given names Gerard and Gerald. Both trace to Old Germanic roots: 'ger,' meaning spear, joined with 'hard' (brave) or 'wald' (rule). Medieval English families passed the name down as a surname, and twentieth-century American parents revived it as a first name, spelling it in many ways including Jerritt.
Jerritt was never common, given to only about twenty boys a year even at its peak around 1980, though scattered use lingered for decades. A boy named Jerritt at that peak would be in his mid-forties today, and the spelling still reads as a personalized twist on the more familiar Jarrett.
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What does the name Jerritt mean?
It is a respelling of Jarrett, from the Germanic Gerard or Gerald, meaning 'brave with a spear' or 'spear-ruler.'
How do you pronounce Jerritt?
It is said JEHR-it, two syllables with the stress on the first.
Is Jerritt a boy or girl name?
Jerritt is used as a boy's name.
How popular is Jerritt?
It has always been rare in the United States, given to only about twenty boys a year even at its peak around the early nineteen-eighties.