Kery
Kery was last recorded in 1991, when 5 babies were given it; 136 Americans have been recorded with it between 1961 and 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kery by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kery?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,552, in 1989; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1978, the peak
Kery peaked in 1978, when 13 babies were given it (8 girls, #7,282 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | under 5 | 5 | #8,927 | |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,552 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 8 | #5,218 | |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,801 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,930 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,714 | 7 | #5,290 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,177 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 5 | #6,565 | |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,282 | 5 | #6,323 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,996 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 7 | #7,525 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,017 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,869 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,826 | 5 | #5,302 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,628 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,010 | 7 | #3,775 |
| 1967 | under 5 | 7 | #3,411 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 5 | #4,362 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 6 | #3,850 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Kery a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 136 Americans recorded as Kery, 56% are girls and 44% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kery: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kery, and how old are they?
An estimated 125 Americans named Kery and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 48 years old and half are between 42 and 55. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 479 people named Kery (285 women and girls, 194 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 128 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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
Kery is a less common spelling of Kerri: SSA has recorded 136 Kery and 37,369 Kerri since 1880.
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kery
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.