Kerri
Kerri is a girl's name that peaked in 1975, when it was the 166th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 9,457th. About 35,000 Kerris are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 49.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Kerri boys named Kerri
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 37,369
- Estimated living today
- 35,000
- Median age today
- 49
- Peak year
- 1975
- Best rank
- 166th
- Rank in 2025
- 9,457th
- First recorded
- 1945
- Girls / boys
- 37,021 / 348
How old the living Kerris are
born that year still alive today
Of the 37,369 babies given the name since 1945, about 35,000 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 480 of them are children and 1,700 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1976 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 the name comes from
Origin a surname
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Kerris
- Kerri Walsh Jennings (born 1978)American professional beach volleyball player
- Kerri Strug (born 1977)American gymnast
- Kerri Gowler (born 1993)New Zealand rower
- Kerri Green (born 1967)American actress
- Kerri Pottharst (born 1965)volleyball player
- Kerri Kenney (born 1970)American actress and musician
People named Kerri with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Kerri is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Kerri is most concentrated in Rhode Island (7.6×), Massachusetts (3.2×), New Hampshire (1.7×), Oklahoma (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1975
The most popular girls’ names the year Kerri peaked:
Kerri elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland girls | Kerri | 960 | 88th |
| Ireland girls | Kerri | 520 | 120th |
| England and Wales girls | Kerri | 431 | 354th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Kerri | 156 | 104th |
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.
Related names
Kerri against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.