Keerthi
Keerthi was last recorded in 2019, when 8 babies were given it; 253 Americans have been recorded with it between 1984 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keerthi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Keerthi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Keerthi is “Alternative form of Kirti (A female given name).”
Borrowed from Tamil கீர்த்தி (kīrtti).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Keerthi?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,884, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
21 babies in 2011, the peak
Keerthi peaked in 2011, when 21 girls were given it, #6,241 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 8 | #11,884 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,964 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,646 | 8.7 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,324 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,499 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,504 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,319 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,248 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,241 | 11.9 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,084 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 14 | #8,663 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,430 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,781 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,595 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,316 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,490 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,363 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,873 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,726 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,311 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,147 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,245 | 3.4 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,202 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Keerthi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Keerthi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Keerthi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keerthi, and how old are they?
An estimated 251 Americans named Keerthi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 13 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,071 people named Keerthi (948 women and girls, 123 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 251 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Keerthi
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.