Kerrie
Kerrie was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,140 among girls’ names; 8,693 Americans have been recorded with it since 1944 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,020 Americans named Kerrie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 44 and 58.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kerrie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kerrie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kerrie 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 Kerrie?
#16,140 among girls’ names, 2025
Kerrie fell from #15,480 in 2015 to #16,140 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 3.4 to 3.1 per million.
425 babies in 1971, the peak
Kerrie peaked in 1971, when 425 babies were given it (419 girls, #474 among girls’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 1% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,140 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,152 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,192 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,480 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,911 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,917 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,825 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,881 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,487 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,788 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 15 | #8,310 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,606 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,539 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,302 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,181 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 24 | #4,999 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,459 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 37 | #3,555 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 45 | #2,961 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,386 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,795 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 46 | #2,692 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 49 | #2,565 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 68 | #2,047 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 65 | #2,095 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 79 | #1,817 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 108 | #1,468 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 104 | #1,492 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 128 | #1,237 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 121 | #1,234 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 126 | #1,169 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 164 | #962 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 169 | #931 | 0.10 |
| 1984 | 179 | #855 | 0.11 |
| 1983 | 152 | #964 | 0.09 |
| 1982 | 162 | #928 | 0.10 |
| 1981 | 192 | #823 | 0.12 |
| 1980 | 202 | #803 | 0.12 |
| 1979 | 254 | #678 | 0.16 |
| 1978 | 224 | #706 | 0.15 |
| 1977 | 291 | #594 | 0.19 |
| 1976 | 347 | #512 | 0.24 |
| 1975 | 397 | #470 | 0.27 |
| 1974 | 359 | #489 | 0.24 |
| 1973 | 335 | #511 | 0.23 |
| 1972 | 382 | #472 | 0.25 |
| 1971 | 419 | #474 | 0.25 |
| 1970 | 376 | #517 | 0.22 |
| 1969 | 342 | #534 | 0.20 |
| 1968 | 306 | #555 | 0.19 |
| 1967 | 238 | #616 | 0.14 |
| 1966 | 160 | #777 | 0.09 |
| 1965 | 184 | #735 | 0.10 |
| 1964 | 252 | #645 | 0.13 |
| 1963 | 167 | #803 | 0.09 |
| 1962 | 151 | #862 | 0.08 |
| 1961 | 147 | #883 | 0.07 |
| 1960 | 126 | #949 | 0.06 |
| 1959 | 128 | #924 | 0.06 |
| 1958 | 93 | #1,090 | 0.05 |
| 1957 | 94 | #1,078 | 0.05 |
| 1956 | 77 | #1,187 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 56 | #1,351 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 59 | #1,293 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 37 | #1,631 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 31 | #1,801 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 25 | #1,991 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,295 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,086 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,770 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,979 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,217 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,902 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,889 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kerrie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 8,693 Americans recorded as Kerrie, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kerrie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kerrie, and how old are they?
8,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 8,693 Americans ever recorded as Kerrie. The median Kerrie alive today is 52 years old; half are between 44 and 58.
The 2020 Census counted 7,918 people named Kerrie (7,795 women and girls, 123 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,206 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,260 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,540 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,880 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 302 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 35 |
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 Kerrie born?
The states with the most babies named Kerrie are California, New York and Massachusetts, with 33% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 791 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 610 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Massachusetts | 555 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Texas | 444 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 371 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 315 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 311 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 264 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 185 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 160 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Kerrie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kerrie is most over-represented in Rhode Island: since 1944 it was given 2.7 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 Kerrie 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 81,442 babies since 1880, Kerrie is the third most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 89 babies (5.6%), the fifth 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 Kerrie
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 Kerrie and names like it
- Compare Kerrie and KerriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKerrie peaked in 1971.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kerrie since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Kerrie: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Kerrie.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kerrie alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.