Keri

#7,491 for girls in 2025, 14 births · Last seen for boys in 2005 at #11,472
Given to girls 99.0% of the time

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Peak · girls
1976 · 1,466 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
32,061
since 1946

Keri over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Keri has never cracked the top 100 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201969peak #173, 1976girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#7,49114
2024#12,1617
2023#6,40918
2022#7,63114
2021#8,02413
2020#7,21215
2019#7,34215
2018#5,15225
2017#4,06636
2016#3,84939
2015#3,76740
2014#3,77840
2013#4,00237
2012#3,36448
2011#2,43475
2010#2,58970
2009#2,64369
2008#2,66369
2007#2,75066
2006#2,43876
2005#2,16085#11,4725
2004#2,32674
2003#1,579122#10,8945
2002#1,268155
2001#1,304147#10,5565
2000#1,035203
1999#880243
1998#852250
1997#785265
1996#693312
1995#646334
1994#568407#6,3728
1993#546433#6,8167
1992#511466#6,1288
1991#407629#3,81315
1990#388678#5,8238
1989#347737#4,52711
1988#297832#4,16211
1987#277888#4,5739
1986#272912#3,65312
1985#255977#2,82817
1984#2191,195#2,52919
1983#252941#3,88410
1982#255982#3,96610
1981#2491,000#3,22113
1980#261982#5,5256
1979#2281,151#2,89715
1978#1971,323#3,40011
1977#1871,474#5,8455
1976#1731,466#4,4187
1975#1741,502#2,63715
1974#2051,231#2,35817
1973#2101,212#3,01311
1972#2461,115#2,32316
1971#2771,036#2,81312
1970#329802#3,8367
1969#335710
1968#356622#3,3657
1967#421490
1966#526321
1965#531324
1964#524352
1963#565302
1962#623261#4,0335
1961#647249
1960#658239#3,6656
1959#692209#3,2907
1958#829150#3,9445
1957#958116
1956#1,016101
1955#1,32058
1954#1,25662
1953#1,56539
1952#1,71333
1951#2,06423
1950#3,05212
1949#2,99912
1948#3,13711
1947#3,24011
1946#3,9947
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First appearance
1946

The first year at least five girls were named Keri! It came in at #3,994, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1946, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.

See more about Keri
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 4,670 spots since 2024 (#12,161#7,491)
  • 279 spots since 2020 (#7,212#7,491)
  • 3,724 spots since 2015 (#3,767#7,491)
  • Biggest jump: 137 spots in 1959 (#829#692)
  • Biggest drop: 155 spots in 2000 (#880#1,035)
Rise & fade · girls
30 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1946
  • Peaked 1976 at #173 (1,466 births)
  • Births halved by 1990, 14 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 43 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 43 yrs · run 1957–1999
Share of babies · girls
1 in 971
  • Highest: 1 in 971 girls born in 1975 were named Keri (0.10%)
  • Latest: 1 in 114,805 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #173 in 1976, was only 1 in 999 (0.10%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 38.4% of all girls named Keri (12,312) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s41#2,999 (1949)#3,343
1950s803#692 (1959)#1,447
1960s3,870#335 (1969)#519
1970s12,312#173 (1976)#223
1980s9,446#219 (1984)#268
1990s4,017#388 (1990)#628
2000s1,066#1,035 (2000)#2,017
2010s425#2,434 (2011)#4,034
2020s81#6,409 (2023)#8,155

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.

Keri in 1969

girls
#335
710 births · 1 in 2,376 girls

Top girls' names in 1969

  1. #1Lisa45,028
  2. #2Michelle34,319
  3. #3Jennifer33,705
  4. #4Kimberly33,077
  5. #5Melissa23,018
  6. #6Amy21,464
  7. #7Angela21,060
  8. #8Mary19,850
  9. #9Tammy19,053
  10. #10Laura17,922
  11. #335Keri710
More about 1969

girls

1,687,016 girls got a published name in 1969; 1 in 2,376 of them was named Keri, which outranked 96.2% of the 8,708 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Keri
  1. #332Wendi732
  2. #333Rachael725
  3. #334Lesley714
  4. #335Keri710
  5. #336Nora709
  6. #337Esther707
  7. #338Josephine699
Biggest movers since 1968
Risers
  1. 1,462Shani#2,126#664
  2. 1,203Julissa#2,164#961
  3. 1,133Chelsea#1,834#701
  4. 667Latasha#1,519#852
  5. 549Britt#1,519#970
Fallers
  1. 455Tamiko#552#1,007
  2. 345Alesia#697#1,042
  3. 324Vickey#966#1,290
  4. 308Bettina#746#1,054
  5. 293Cammie#846#1,139

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1969