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Kerrick vs Kerrie

American parents have registered 8,693 Kerries since 1880, against 721 Kerricks. Kerrie is still ahead, with 5 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kerrick 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 78 years in which either name was published, Kerrie for 63 years and Kerrick for 15 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Kerrick Kerrie
Total US births 7218,693
Most in one year 23425
Babies in 2025 under 55
Estimated living today 6808,100
Median age today 3251
Peak year 20061971
Best rank 4,105th boys474th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked14,942nd
First recorded 19541944
Girls / boys 0 / 7218,589 / 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 Kerricks are over 32. That is 19 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: Kerrick and Kerrie.