Meaning not yet researched.
Kerri: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #167 in 1975.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #167 in 1975; #9,787 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kerri in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,787 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1975, at #167.
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Kerri: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 girls in 2025. Peak: #167 in 1975 · most girls in one year: 1,597 (1975).
In 2025, 10 US girls were named Kerri, making it the 9,787th most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,255 places from #6,532 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 18 girls named Kerri in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #167, reached in 1975. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,597. For comparison, it was #6,141 in 2015 and #2,160 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kerri in 81 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1945 with 7 babies. In all, 37,369 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 14,569 babies named Kerri.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 175 US girls were named Kerri; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 32. In 2025 that was about 1 in 160,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kerry (98,644 babies since 1880), Keri (32,386 babies since 1880), Kerrie (8,693 babies since 1880) and Keiry (2,070 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kiri, Kyri and Keyari 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: Kiri (994), Kyri (943), Keyari (345), Kearia (291), Kyari (268), Kearie (147), Kiori (111), Kierria (73), Keiari (60), Keyori (59), Kyori (55), Kyrei (36), and more.
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 Kerri in the open dataset we use.
Kerri is listed as a nickname for Kerry.
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 | 10 | #9,787 | — | — |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,532 | — | — |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,282 | — | — |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,797 | — | — |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,875 | — | — |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,402 | — | — |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,299 | — | — |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,667 | — | — |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,438 | — | — |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,585 | — | — |
| 2015 | 21 | #6,141 | — | — |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,961 | — | — |
| 2013 | 45 | #3,498 | — | — |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,176 | — | — |
| 2011 | 41 | #3,755 | — | — |
| 2010 | 51 | #3,232 | — | — |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,711 | — | — |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,817 | — | — |
| 2007 | 51 | #3,310 | — | — |
| 2006 | 58 | #2,954 | — | — |
| 2005 | 67 | #2,568 | — | — |
| 2004 | 83 | #2,166 | — | — |
| 2003 | 123 | #1,570 | — | — |
| 2002 | 123 | #1,541 | — | — |
| 2001 | 129 | #1,461 | — | — |
| 2000 | 151 | #1,284 | — | — |
| 1999 | 177 | #1,123 | — | — |
| 1998 | 208 | #974 | — | — |
| 1997 | 282 | #754 | — | — |
| 1996 | 315 | #690 | — | — |
| 1995 | 315 | #676 | — | — |
| 1994 | 346 | #634 | 10 | #5,696 |
| 1993 | 378 | #607 | 6 | #8,184 |
| 1992 | 488 | #497 | — | — |
| 1991 | 484 | #493 | 12 | #4,635 |
| 1990 | 574 | #437 | 9 | #5,615 |
| 1989 | 551 | #443 | 5 | #8,612 |
| 1988 | 731 | #336 | 11 | #4,324 |
| 1987 | 729 | #336 | 6 | #6,559 |
| 1986 | 782 | #307 | 15 | #3,210 |
| 1985 | 854 | #291 | 9 | #4,523 |
| 1984 | 888 | #270 | 11 | #3,821 |
| 1983 | 857 | #276 | 15 | #3,006 |
| 1982 | 1,029 | #244 | 17 | #2,772 |
| 1981 | 1,024 | #244 | 6 | #5,899 |
| 1980 | 1,119 | #228 | 7 | #5,245 |
| 1979 | 1,110 | #235 | 12 | #3,463 |
| 1978 | 1,222 | #208 | 15 | #2,865 |
| 1977 | 1,438 | #188 | 8 | #4,397 |
| 1976 | 1,508 | #168 | 8 | #4,216 |
| 1975 | 1,597 | #167 | 19 | #2,325 |
| 1974 | 1,577 | #171 | 10 | #3,451 |
| 1973 | 1,504 | #180 | 13 | #2,793 |
| 1972 | 1,501 | #190 | 7 | #4,221 |
| 1971 | 1,575 | #195 | 14 | #2,631 |
| 1970 | 1,416 | #223 | 15 | #2,450 |
| 1969 | 1,240 | #242 | 17 | #2,088 |
| 1968 | 1,239 | #234 | 5 | #4,446 |
| 1967 | 879 | #288 | 6 | #3,780 |
| 1966 | 684 | #340 | 6 | #3,733 |
| 1965 | 606 | #371 | 8 | #3,120 |
| 1964 | 702 | #355 | 5 | #4,342 |
| 1963 | 659 | #380 | 9 | #2,960 |
| 1962 | 563 | #410 | 7 | #3,479 |
| 1961 | 508 | #438 | 7 | #3,522 |
| 1960 | 478 | #446 | 7 | #3,502 |
| 1959 | 393 | #491 | 5 | #4,291 |
| 1958 | 313 | #549 | 6 | #3,739 |
| 1957 | 260 | #606 | — | — |
| 1956 | 194 | #687 | — | — |
| 1955 | 109 | #945 | — | — |
| 1954 | 116 | #893 | — | — |
| 1953 | 72 | #1,141 | — | — |
| 1952 | 51 | #1,361 | — | — |
| 1951 | 43 | #1,446 | — | — |
| 1950 | 21 | #2,160 | — | — |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,675 | — | — |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,738 | — | — |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,016 | — | — |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,827 | — | — |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,841 | — | — |
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).