Kerry — #2676 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kerry

The Social Security Administration has registered 49,911 babies named Kerry between 1921 and 2024, spanning 104 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kerry currently holds the #2676 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1960, when 2,176 babies received it in a single year. Kerry is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 48,652 additional births since 1920.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kerry performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 15,283 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Kerry shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 4,278 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Kerry in 49 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kerry 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 49,911 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.