Jersey is a place name, taken from the largest of the Channel Islands, whose name is usually explained as Old Norse for "Geirr's island", and by way of the island from the state of New Jersey. As a girls' name it joined the wave of place names such as Brooklyn and Dallas in the 2000s. In the United States Jersey ranked number 13932 in 2000, peaked at number 1071 in 2010 and has held steady between about number 1300 and 1600 since, standing at number 1394 in 2025.