Keri
Keri was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,684 among girls’ names; 32,386 Americans have been recorded with it since 1946 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 30,600 Americans named Keri and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 39 and 53.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keri by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Keri mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Keri is “a female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kerry.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Keri?
#7,684 among girls’ names, 2025
Keri fell from #3,811 in 2015 to #7,684 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 22.4 to 8.7 per million.
1,517 babies in 1975, the peak
Keri peaked in 1975, when 1,517 babies were given it (1,502 girls, #174 among girls’ names). The 14 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,684 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,802 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,542 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,845 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,270 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,396 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,538 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,241 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,111 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,892 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #3,811 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,812 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,044 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,401 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 75 | #2,445 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 70 | #2,597 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 69 | #2,662 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 69 | #2,674 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,769 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 76 | #2,451 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 85 | #2,172 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 74 | #2,329 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 122 | #1,582 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 155 | #1,272 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 147 | #1,308 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 203 | #1,035 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 243 | #881 | 0.14 |
| 1998 | 250 | #853 | 0.14 |
| 1997 | 265 | #786 | 0.15 |
| 1996 | 312 | #694 | 0.18 |
| 1995 | 334 | #647 | 0.19 |
| 1994 | 407 | #568 | 0.23 |
| 1993 | 433 | #548 | 0.24 |
| 1992 | 466 | #511 | 0.25 |
| 1991 | 629 | #407 | 0.34 |
| 1990 | 678 | #388 | 0.36 |
| 1989 | 737 | #347 | 0.40 |
| 1988 | 832 | #297 | 0.47 |
| 1987 | 888 | #277 | 0.51 |
| 1986 | 912 | #272 | 0.53 |
| 1985 | 977 | #256 | 0.57 |
| 1984 | 1,195 | #219 | 0.71 |
| 1983 | 941 | #252 | 0.56 |
| 1982 | 982 | #255 | 0.58 |
| 1981 | 1,000 | #249 | 0.60 |
| 1980 | 982 | #261 | 0.59 |
| 1979 | 1,151 | #228 | 0.72 |
| 1978 | 1,323 | #197 | 0.86 |
| 1977 | 1,474 | #187 | 1.0 |
| 1976 | 1,466 | #173 | 1.0 |
| 1975 | 1,502 | #174 | 1.0 |
| 1974 | 1,231 | #205 | 0.84 |
| 1973 | 1,212 | #210 | 0.83 |
| 1972 | 1,115 | #246 | 0.73 |
| 1971 | 1,036 | #278 | 0.62 |
| 1970 | 802 | #329 | 0.46 |
| 1969 | 710 | #335 | 0.42 |
| 1968 | 622 | #357 | 0.38 |
| 1967 | 490 | #421 | 0.30 |
| 1966 | 321 | #527 | 0.19 |
| 1965 | 324 | #531 | 0.18 |
| 1964 | 352 | #524 | 0.19 |
| 1963 | 302 | #565 | 0.16 |
| 1962 | 261 | #624 | 0.13 |
| 1961 | 249 | #648 | 0.12 |
| 1960 | 239 | #658 | 0.12 |
| 1959 | 209 | #693 | 0.10 |
| 1958 | 150 | #829 | 0.07 |
| 1957 | 116 | #959 | 0.06 |
| 1956 | 101 | #1,018 | 0.05 |
| 1955 | 58 | #1,330 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 62 | #1,262 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 39 | #1,574 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 33 | #1,728 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 23 | #2,084 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,150 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,085 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,247 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,351 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,216 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Keri a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 32,386 Americans recorded as Keri, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 14 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Girls and boys named Keri: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keri, and how old are they?
30,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 32,386 Americans ever recorded as Keri. The median Keri alive today is 47 years old; half are between 39 and 53.
The 2020 Census counted 29,031 people named Keri (28,763 women and girls, 268 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 31,016 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,900 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 14,900 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 11,500 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,010 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 311 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Keri born?
The states with the most babies named Keri are California, New York and Texas, with 26% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 3,071 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 2,315 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 2,100 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,406 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 1,330 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 1,275 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 1,263 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Massachusetts | 1,079 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Florida | 1,070 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 851 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Keri is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Keri is most over-represented in Rhode Island: since 1946 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Keri with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 123,996 babies since 1880, Keri is the third most given (26% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 583 babies (2.4%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Keri
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.
More about Keri and names like it
- Compare Keri and KerriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKeri peaked in 1975.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keri since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Keri: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Keri.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Keri alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.