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Kerby

The boy's name Kerby has been in the national records since 1942, with 1,006 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 12,008th. About 890 Kerbys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 41.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Kerby boys named Kerby

By the numbers

Total US births
1,006
Estimated living today
890
Median age today
41
Peak year
1961
Best rank
1,570th
Rank in 2025
12,008th
First recorded
1942
Girls / boys
122 / 884

How old the living Kerbys are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,006 babies given the name since 1942, about 890 are alive — 88 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1984 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Kerby is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Kerby is most concentrated in Florida (23.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1961

The most popular boys’ names the year Kerby peaked:

All the names of 1961

Kerby elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France boys Kerby 10 6,424th
England and Wales girls Kerby 3 3,795th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.