Kerin — unisex name

What the Data Says About Kerin

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,318 babies named Kerin between 1935 and 2013, spanning 79 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kerin currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2013. The name reached its historical peak in 1981, when 43 babies received it in a single year. Kerin is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 272 additional births since 1954.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kerin performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 311 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Kerin shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Massachusetts, which accounts for 169 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Kerin in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kerin in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,318 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.