Kera
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births
- Peak · girls
- 1982 · 128 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,458since 1961
Kera over time
Rank among girls' names. Kera has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 |
| 2021 | #7,250 | 15 |
| 2020 | #7,969 | 13 |
| 2019 | #6,414 | 18 |
| 2018 | #5,454 | 23 |
| 2017 | #5,517 | 23 |
| 2016 | #5,130 | 26 |
| 2015 | #5,653 | 23 |
| 2014 | #4,350 | 33 |
| 2013 | #4,887 | 28 |
| 2012 | #4,387 | 33 |
| 2011 | #3,550 | 44 |
| 2010 | #3,044 | 55 |
| 2009 | #2,568 | 72 |
| 2008 | #2,584 | 72 |
| 2007 | #2,231 | 88 |
| 2006 | #2,016 | 98 |
| 2005 | #1,950 | 98 |
| 2004 | #2,175 | 82 |
| 2003 | #2,092 | 84 |
| 2002 | #2,673 | 57 |
| 2001 | #2,151 | 76 |
| 2000 | #2,103 | 77 |
| 1999 | #1,962 | 80 |
| 1998 | #1,921 | 79 |
| 1997 | #1,757 | 86 |
| 1996 | #2,282 | 58 |
| 1995 | #2,006 | 68 |
| 1994 | #1,608 | 94 |
| 1993 | #1,708 | 87 |
| 1992 | #1,448 | 110 |
| 1991 | #1,702 | 86 |
| 1990 | #1,755 | 83 |
| 1989 | #1,435 | 103 |
| 1988 | #1,354 | 105 |
| 1987 | #1,302 | 106 |
| 1986 | #1,405 | 91 |
| 1985 | #1,163 | 122 |
| 1984 | #1,133 | 121 |
| 1983 | #1,272 | 97 |
| 1982 | #1,099 | 128 |
| 1981 | #1,830 | 60 |
| 1980 | #2,014 | 52 |
| 1979 | #2,387 | 39 |
| 1978 | #2,741 | 30 |
| 1977 | #2,341 | 38 |
| 1976 | #1,936 | 46 |
| 1975 | #1,155 | 100 |
| 1974 | #1,399 | 73 |
| 1973 | #2,506 | 29 |
| 1972 | #3,404 | 18 |
| 1971 | #3,373 | 19 |
| 1970 | #3,311 | 19 |
| 1969 | #3,619 | 15 |
| 1968 | #4,779 | 9 |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 |
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| 1965 | #4,831 | 8 |
| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 |
| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 |
| 1962 | #5,860 | 6 |
| 1961 | #5,851 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kera! It came in at #5,851, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1966–1967, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kera is popular in 1975
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Pennsylvania#498 · 1 in 4,646
- Massachusetts#553 · 1 in 5,876
- Michigan#742 · 1 in 7,959
- Ohio#890 · 1 in 11,556
- New York#945 · 1 in 9,255
Best ever in a state: #498 in Pennsylvania, 1975.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Pennsylvania | #498 | 14 | 1 in 4,646 |
| Massachusetts | #553 | 5 | 1 in 5,876 |
| Michigan | #742 | 7 | 1 in 7,959 |
| Ohio | #890 | 6 | 1 in 11,556 |
| New York | #945 | 11 | 1 in 9,255 |
| Illinois | #1,039 | 6 | 1 in 11,613 |
| Texas | #1,324 | 6 | 1 in 15,953 |
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See more about Kera
- 646 spots since 2024 (#10,271 → #10,917)
- 2,948 spots since 2020 (#7,969 → #10,917)
- 5,264 spots since 2015 (#5,653 → #10,917)
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 1982 at #1,099 (128 births)
- Births halved by 1996, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,229 girls born in 1982 were named Kera (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 28.5% of all girls named Kera (985) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 61 | #3,619 (1969) | #5,456 |
| 1970s | 411 | #1,155 (1975) | #2,455 |
| 1980s | 985 | #1,099 (1982) | #1,401 |
| 1990s | 831 | #1,448 (1992) | #1,815 |
| 2000s | 804 | #1,950 (2005) | #2,254 |
| 2010s | 306 | #3,044 (2010) | #4,839 |
| 2020s | 60 | #7,250 (2021) | #9,973 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kera in 1975
Top girls' names in 1975
More about 1975
girls
1,457,861 girls got a published name in 1975; 1 in 14,579 of them was named Kera, which outranked 89.1% of the 10,618 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,145Petra101
- #1,145Robbin101
- #1,145Shandra101
- #1,155Kera100
- #1,155Gillian100
- #1,155Jacquline100
- #1,155Marcela100
- #1,162Brigitte99
- #1,162Britt99
- #1,162Glenna99
Tied with 6 names at #1,155; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.