Kerri
Kerri is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 18 births. Its best rank was 167th, in 1975.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 180.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19751,597 births
- Best rank
- #167in 1975
- Since 1945
- 37,011people given the name
The story in the numbers
37,011 girls have been named Kerri in the United States since 1945, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1975, with 1,597 births — 0.11% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 18 births in 2024, against 1,597 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1976, and the 1970s alone account for 39%. It has spent 45 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Kerri | |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 45 | |
| 1950s | 1,572 | |
| 1960s | 7,558 | |
| 1970s | 14,448 | |
| 1980s | 8,564 | |
| 1990s | 3,567 | |
| 2000s | 870 | |
| 2010s | 322 | |
| 2020s | 65 |
In 1975, its biggest year
Kerri was the 167th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1975 were Jennifer, Amy, Heather, Melissa and Angela. See all of 1975.
Names that rose and fell with Kerri
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Chandrapeak 1975
- Kristipeak 1971
- Caripeak 1976
- Stacypeak 1971
- Shonnapeak 1977
- Latriciapeak 1974
- Yalondapeak 1974
- Larondapeak 1973
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.