Kerra
Kerra was last recorded in 2019, when 6 babies were given it; 1,149 Americans have been recorded with it between 1956 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,120 Americans named Kerra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 22 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kerra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kerra?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,703, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
44 babies in 1997, the peak
Kerra peaked in 1997, when 44 girls were given it, #2,794 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 6 | #14,703 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,774 | 3.5 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,698 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,282 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,637 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,798 | 13.1 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,272 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,511 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,207 | 12.0 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,826 | 16.4 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 30 | #4,880 | 15.6 |
| 2006 | 37 | #4,043 | 19.5 |
| 2005 | 33 | #4,221 | 17.9 |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,332 | 17.4 |
| 2003 | 25 | #5,022 | 13.7 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,441 | 15.6 |
| 2001 | 40 | #3,388 | 22.2 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,066 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,405 | 20.9 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,302 | 14.7 |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,794 | 25.3 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,771 | 16.5 |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,026 | 14.8 |
| 1994 | 38 | #3,058 | 21.3 |
| 1993 | 36 | #3,187 | 19.9 |
| 1992 | 40 | #2,940 | 21.7 |
| 1991 | 33 | #3,326 | 17.6 |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,751 | 14.7 |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,063 | 13.0 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,430 | 15.7 |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,052 | 12.1 |
| 1986 | 32 | #2,942 | 18.7 |
| 1985 | 35 | #2,728 | 20.3 |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,954 | 17.8 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,876 | 12.0 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,244 | 10.6 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,412 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,413 | 10.2 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,000 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,355 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,673 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,471 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 34 | #2,382 | 23.3 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,795 | 17.7 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,350 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,242 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,937 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,486 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,013 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,549 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,095 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,036 | 2.5 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,608 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kerra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kerra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kerra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kerra, and how old are they?
1,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,149 Americans ever recorded as Kerra. The median Kerra alive today is 31 years old; half are between 22 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 1,084 people named Kerra (1,084 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,127 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 13 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 155 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 439 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 463 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 49 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 123,735 babies since 1880, Kerra is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 575 babies recorded by SSA was a Kerra (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Kerra
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 Kerra and names like it
- Compare Kerra and KerriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKerra peaked in 1997.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kerra since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Kerra.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kerra alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.