Unisex name · since 2010
Kerlin
Kerlin has 12 recorded births since 2010 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2010 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 12
- total births
- 2010–2015
- years on record
- 2010s
- peak decade
- 100%
- born in that decade
Kerlin is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 12 have been recorded since 2010.
Kerlin has 12 recorded births among girls since 2010, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2010 to 2015.
- 12 total births
- 2010–2015 years on record
- 2010s peak decade
- 100% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Kerlin's 12 recorded births place it above 27% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kerlin's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Kerlin's full recorded timeline at 2015, 42% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 58% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 2015, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2010 peak of 7 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Kerlin popularity over time - girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2010–2015
- Peak year (2010)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 6 years of records
Kerlin popularity over time - boys
5 total births recorded since 2025 (Kerlin as boys' name)
Kerlin by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
2010s was Kerlin's strongest decade.
12 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Kerlin births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
12 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 12 births (100% of all-time use).
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2010–2015 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Kerlin: Baby Name Since 2010 - 12 Births, Peak 2010." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kerlin. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Kerlin draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.