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Keriann vs Kerrie

American parents have registered 8,693 Kerries since 1880, against 967 Kerianns. Kerrie is still ahead, with 5 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Keriann against Kerrie, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Keriann Kerrie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 75 years in which either name was published, Kerrie for 74 years and Keriann for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Keriann Kerrie
Total US births 9678,693
Most in one year 62425
Babies in 2025 under 55
Estimated living today 9408,100
Median age today 3951
Peak year 19841971
Best rank 1,751st girls474th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked14,942nd
First recorded 19681944
Girls / boys 967 / 08,589 / 104

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Kerries alive today are over 51; half the Kerianns are over 39. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Keriann and Kerrie.