Kerri
Kerri was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,784 among girls’ names; 37,369 Americans have been recorded with it since 1945 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 34,900 Americans named Kerri and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 42 and 56.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kerri by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kerri mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kerri 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 Kerri?
#9,784 among girls’ names, 2025
Kerri fell from #6,139 in 2015 to #9,784 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.8 to 6.2 per million.
1,616 babies in 1975, the peak
Kerri peaked in 1975, when 1,616 babies were given it (1,597 girls, #167 among girls’ names). The 10 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,784 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,529 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,277 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,792 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,870 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,397 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,295 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,663 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,436 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,584 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #6,139 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,959 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 45 | #3,496 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,174 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 41 | #3,754 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 51 | #3,231 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,710 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,816 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 51 | #3,310 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 58 | #2,953 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 67 | #2,564 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 83 | #2,163 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 123 | #1,569 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 123 | #1,540 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 129 | #1,460 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 151 | #1,282 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 177 | #1,121 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 208 | #973 | 0.12 |
| 1997 | 282 | #754 | 0.16 |
| 1996 | 315 | #690 | 0.18 |
| 1995 | 315 | #676 | 0.18 |
| 1994 | 346 | #634 | 0.19 |
| 1993 | 378 | #607 | 0.21 |
| 1992 | 488 | #497 | 0.26 |
| 1991 | 484 | #493 | 0.26 |
| 1990 | 574 | #436 | 0.30 |
| 1989 | 551 | #443 | 0.30 |
| 1988 | 731 | #336 | 0.41 |
| 1987 | 729 | #336 | 0.42 |
| 1986 | 782 | #307 | 0.46 |
| 1985 | 854 | #291 | 0.50 |
| 1984 | 888 | #270 | 0.53 |
| 1983 | 857 | #276 | 0.51 |
| 1982 | 1,029 | #244 | 0.61 |
| 1981 | 1,024 | #244 | 0.61 |
| 1980 | 1,119 | #228 | 0.67 |
| 1979 | 1,110 | #235 | 0.69 |
| 1978 | 1,222 | #208 | 0.80 |
| 1977 | 1,438 | #188 | 0.94 |
| 1976 | 1,508 | #168 | 1.0 |
| 1975 | 1,597 | #167 | 1.1 |
| 1974 | 1,577 | #171 | 1.1 |
| 1973 | 1,504 | #180 | 1.0 |
| 1972 | 1,501 | #190 | 1.0 |
| 1971 | 1,575 | #195 | 0.95 |
| 1970 | 1,416 | #223 | 0.81 |
| 1969 | 1,240 | #242 | 0.74 |
| 1968 | 1,239 | #234 | 0.76 |
| 1967 | 879 | #288 | 0.53 |
| 1966 | 684 | #340 | 0.40 |
| 1965 | 606 | #371 | 0.34 |
| 1964 | 702 | #355 | 0.37 |
| 1963 | 659 | #380 | 0.34 |
| 1962 | 563 | #410 | 0.29 |
| 1961 | 508 | #438 | 0.25 |
| 1960 | 478 | #446 | 0.24 |
| 1959 | 393 | #491 | 0.19 |
| 1958 | 313 | #549 | 0.16 |
| 1957 | 260 | #605 | 0.13 |
| 1956 | 194 | #686 | 0.10 |
| 1955 | 109 | #944 | 0.06 |
| 1954 | 116 | #892 | 0.06 |
| 1953 | 72 | #1,140 | 0.04 |
| 1952 | 51 | #1,360 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 43 | #1,445 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 21 | #2,159 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,674 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,736 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,014 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,826 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,839 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kerri a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kerri has been given almost only to girls: 348 boys in 81 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kerri: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kerri, and how old are they?
34,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 37,369 Americans ever recorded as Kerri. The median Kerri alive today is 50 years old; half are between 42 and 56.
The 2020 Census counted 33,369 people named Kerri (33,130 women and girls, 239 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 35,511 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,840 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 19,000 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 10,200 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,640 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 267 |
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 Kerri born?
The states with the most babies named Kerri are New York, Massachusetts and California, with 26% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Massachusetts is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 3,657 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Massachusetts | 2,750 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| California | 2,569 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 1,994 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,839 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 1,581 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 1,408 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 1,393 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 1,358 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Florida | 1,023 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Kerri is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kerri is most over-represented in Rhode Island: since 1945 it was given 5.4 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 Kerri 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 124,057 babies since 1880, Kerri is the most given (30% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 575 babies (1.7%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Kerri
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 Kerri and names like it
- Compare Kerri and KeiraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKerri peaked in 1975.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kerri since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Kerri: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Kerri.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kerri alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.