Kerrie

Where Kerrie comes from

The dictionaries list Kerrie as a given name — a female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kerry — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1944
    First appearance
    #3,687 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1953
    Kerrie Keane born
    Canadian actress
  3. 1975
    Peak, #469
    397 babies named Kerrie — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1981
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #822.
  5. 1982
    Kerrie Meares born
    Australian racing cyclist
In the dictionary
  • A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kerry.
Namesakes
  • Kerrie Meares · Australian racing cyclist, born 1982
  • Kerrie Keane · Canadian actress, born 1953
  • Kerrie A. Wilson · Australian ecologist, born 2000
  • Kerrie Roberts · American singer, born 1985
  • Kerrie McCarthy · Ghanaian association football player, born 2000

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.