Meaning not yet researched.
Keri: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 14 in 2025. Its best rank was #173 in 1976.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #173 in 1976; #7,686 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Keri in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,686 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1976, at #173.
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Keri: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 14 girls in 2025. Peak: #173 in 1976 · most girls in one year: 1,502 (1975).
In 2025, 14 US girls were named Keri, making it the 7,686th most common girls’ name of the year, up 5,121 places from #12,807 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 7 girls named Keri in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #173, reached in 1976. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,502, in 1975. For comparison, it was #3,812 in 2015 and #3,151 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Keri in 80 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1946 with 7 babies. In all, 32,386 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.0% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 12,428 babies named Keri.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 196 US girls were named Keri; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 39. In 2025 that was about 1 in 114,805 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kerry (98,644 babies since 1880), Kerri (37,369 babies since 1880), Kyrie (22,910 babies since 1880) and Kerrie (8,693 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kyria, Kirie and Kieria are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kyria (797), Kirie (51), Kieria (31), Kiria (25), Kyeria (18), Keriah (11), Kyrio (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Keri in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,686 | — | — |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,807 | — | — |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,547 | — | — |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,850 | — | — |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,275 | — | — |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,401 | — | — |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,542 | — | — |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,245 | — | — |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,112 | — | — |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,892 | — | — |
| 2015 | 40 | #3,812 | — | — |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,814 | — | — |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,046 | — | — |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,402 | — | — |
| 2011 | 75 | #2,446 | — | — |
| 2010 | 70 | #2,597 | — | — |
| 2009 | 69 | #2,663 | — | — |
| 2008 | 69 | #2,674 | — | — |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,769 | — | — |
| 2006 | 76 | #2,451 | — | — |
| 2005 | 85 | #2,173 | 5 | #12,470 |
| 2004 | 74 | #2,332 | — | — |
| 2003 | 122 | #1,583 | 5 | #11,897 |
| 2002 | 155 | #1,273 | — | — |
| 2001 | 147 | #1,309 | 5 | #11,534 |
| 2000 | 203 | #1,037 | — | — |
| 1999 | 243 | #882 | — | — |
| 1998 | 250 | #853 | — | — |
| 1997 | 265 | #786 | — | — |
| 1996 | 312 | #694 | — | — |
| 1995 | 334 | #647 | — | — |
| 1994 | 407 | #568 | 8 | #6,704 |
| 1993 | 433 | #548 | 7 | #7,227 |
| 1992 | 466 | #511 | 8 | #6,418 |
| 1991 | 629 | #407 | 15 | #3,929 |
| 1990 | 678 | #388 | 8 | #6,148 |
| 1989 | 737 | #347 | 11 | #4,678 |
| 1988 | 832 | #297 | 11 | #4,323 |
| 1987 | 888 | #277 | 9 | #4,766 |
| 1986 | 912 | #272 | 12 | #3,772 |
| 1985 | 977 | #256 | 17 | #2,895 |
| 1984 | 1,195 | #219 | 19 | #2,579 |
| 1983 | 941 | #252 | 10 | #4,020 |
| 1982 | 982 | #255 | 10 | #4,103 |
| 1981 | 1,000 | #249 | 13 | #3,320 |
| 1980 | 982 | #261 | 6 | #5,922 |
| 1979 | 1,151 | #228 | 15 | #2,961 |
| 1978 | 1,323 | #197 | 11 | #3,513 |
| 1977 | 1,474 | #187 | 5 | #6,369 |
| 1976 | 1,466 | #173 | 7 | #4,690 |
| 1975 | 1,502 | #174 | 15 | #2,702 |
| 1974 | 1,231 | #205 | 17 | #2,410 |
| 1973 | 1,212 | #210 | 11 | #3,131 |
| 1972 | 1,115 | #246 | 16 | #2,375 |
| 1971 | 1,036 | #278 | 12 | #2,899 |
| 1970 | 802 | #329 | 7 | #4,054 |
| 1969 | 710 | #335 | — | — |
| 1968 | 622 | #357 | 7 | #3,522 |
| 1967 | 490 | #421 | — | — |
| 1966 | 321 | #527 | — | — |
| 1965 | 324 | #531 | — | — |
| 1964 | 352 | #524 | — | — |
| 1963 | 302 | #565 | — | — |
| 1962 | 261 | #624 | 5 | #4,360 |
| 1961 | 249 | #648 | — | — |
| 1960 | 239 | #658 | 6 | #3,861 |
| 1959 | 209 | #693 | 7 | #3,438 |
| 1958 | 150 | #830 | 5 | #4,238 |
| 1957 | 116 | #960 | — | — |
| 1956 | 101 | #1,019 | — | — |
| 1955 | 58 | #1,331 | — | — |
| 1954 | 62 | #1,263 | — | — |
| 1953 | 39 | #1,575 | — | — |
| 1952 | 33 | #1,729 | — | — |
| 1951 | 23 | #2,085 | — | — |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,151 | — | — |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,086 | — | — |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,248 | — | — |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,353 | — | — |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,217 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).