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Kerri vs Kerrick

American parents have registered 37,369 Kerris since 1880, against 721 Kerricks. Kerri is still ahead, with 10 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kerri against Kerrick, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kerri Kerrick

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

Kerri has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1945 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2015, when Kerri had 21 and Kerrick had 9.

Side by side

  Kerri Kerrick
Total US births 37,369721
Most in one year 1,61623
Babies in 2025 10under 5
Estimated living today 35,000680
Median age today 4932
Peak year 19752006
Best rank 166th girls4,105th boys
Rank in 2025 9,457thunranked
First recorded 19451954
Girls / boys 37,021 / 3480 / 721

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 Kerris alive today are over 49; half the Kerricks are over 32. That is 17 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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