Kerry
#5,554 for girls in 2025, 22 births · #2,451 for boys in 2025, 55 births
Given to boys 50.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1960 · 2,176 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 49,969since 1921
Kerry over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,554 | 22 | #2,451 | 55 |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 | #2,674 | 49 |
| 2023 | #8,055 | 13 | #3,347 | 35 |
| 2022 | #6,707 | 17 | #2,493 | 55 |
| 2021 | #6,967 | 16 | #2,918 | 42 |
| 2020 | #5,314 | 23 | #2,980 | 39 |
| 2019 | #5,612 | 22 | #2,851 | 43 |
| 2018 | #6,792 | 17 | #2,507 | 51 |
| 2017 | #4,576 | 30 | #2,295 | 57 |
| 2016 | #4,632 | 30 | #2,412 | 53 |
| 2015 | #5,127 | 26 | #2,189 | 62 |
| 2014 | #4,003 | 37 | #2,175 | 62 |
| 2013 | #3,849 | 39 | #1,942 | 71 |
| 2012 | #5,114 | 27 | #2,380 | 53 |
| 2011 | #4,151 | 35 | #2,145 | 61 |
| 2010 | #4,735 | 30 | #2,069 | 65 |
| 2009 | #4,571 | 32 | #1,990 | 70 |
| 2008 | #4,179 | 37 | #1,760 | 85 |
| 2007 | #3,601 | 45 | #1,721 | 87 |
| 2006 | #2,512 | 73 | #1,519 | 99 |
| 2005 | #2,254 | 80 | #1,282 | 120 |
| 2004 | #2,100 | 86 | #971 | 172 |
| 2003 | #1,845 | 100 | #1,269 | 112 |
| 2002 | #1,370 | 141 | #1,115 | 130 |
| 2001 | #1,295 | 149 | #1,035 | 142 |
| 2000 | #1,120 | 182 | #1,061 | 135 |
| 1999 | #1,021 | 200 | #961 | 150 |
| 1998 | #1,004 | 199 | #939 | 150 |
| 1997 | #772 | 272 | #788 | 188 |
| 1996 | #722 | 290 | #798 | 181 |
| 1995 | #709 | 295 | #748 | 206 |
| 1994 | #643 | 339 | #674 | 235 |
| 1993 | #613 | 373 | #599 | 296 |
| 1992 | #540 | 438 | #609 | 288 |
| 1991 | #497 | 477 | #487 | 414 |
| 1990 | #446 | 556 | #483 | 402 |
| 1989 | #437 | 560 | #465 | 409 |
| 1988 | #403 | 599 | #439 | 421 |
| 1987 | #352 | 670 | #436 | 409 |
| 1986 | #344 | 699 | #382 | 481 |
| 1985 | #349 | 672 | #351 | 525 |
| 1984 | #321 | 730 | #356 | 512 |
| 1983 | #297 | 786 | #418 | 383 |
| 1982 | #264 | 938 | #406 | 417 |
| 1981 | #267 | 939 | #398 | 418 |
| 1980 | #259 | 1,000 | #394 | 431 |
| 1979 | #251 | 994 | #373 | 462 |
| 1978 | #217 | 1,154 | #358 | 463 |
| 1977 | #202 | 1,300 | #334 | 540 |
| 1976 | #176 | 1,449 | #305 | 582 |
| 1975 | #163 | 1,676 | #294 | 646 |
| 1974 | #158 | 1,729 | #268 | 710 |
| 1973 | #148 | 1,874 | #272 | 681 |
| 1972 | #148 | 1,910 | #265 | 733 |
| 1971 | #145 | 2,206 | #253 | 878 |
| 1970 | #176 | 1,831 | #243 | 967 |
| 1969 | #176 | 1,854 | #235 | 976 |
| 1968 | #186 | 1,735 | #214 | 1,085 |
| 1967 | #231 | 1,258 | #206 | 1,123 |
| 1966 | #262 | 1,032 | #195 | 1,241 |
| 1965 | #289 | 921 | #177 | 1,471 |
| 1964 | #261 | 1,177 | #176 | 1,563 |
| 1963 | #258 | 1,163 | #170 | 1,724 |
| 1962 | #271 | 1,092 | #167 | 1,900 |
| 1961 | #287 | 1,040 | #161 | 2,027 |
| 1960 | #302 | 951 | #158 | 2,176 |
| 1959 | #336 | 792 | #178 | 1,703 |
| 1958 | #329 | 806 | #194 | 1,439 |
| 1957 | #321 | 813 | #175 | 1,747 |
| 1956 | #321 | 740 | #183 | 1,588 |
| 1955 | #348 | 615 | #174 | 1,601 |
| 1954 | #359 | 582 | #170 | 1,662 |
| 1953 | #358 | 569 | #194 | 1,264 |
| 1952 | #348 | 556 | #194 | 1,167 |
| 1951 | #362 | 491 | #191 | 1,183 |
| 1950 | #362 | 478 | #197 | 1,062 |
| 1949 | #401 | 395 | #210 | 926 |
| 1948 | #488 | 273 | #235 | 750 |
| 1947 | #606 | 196 | #248 | 704 |
| 1946 | #646 | 149 | #292 | 489 |
| 1945 | #663 | 124 | #339 | 310 |
| 1944 | #599 | 150 | #345 | 297 |
| 1943 | #832 | 87 | #429 | 211 |
| 1942 | #1,229 | 42 | #524 | 135 |
| 1941 | #1,569 | 25 | #541 | 120 |
| 1940 | #1,682 | 22 | #560 | 112 |
| 1939 | #2,736 | 10 | #629 | 87 |
| 1938 | #2,579 | 11 | #730 | 70 |
| 1937 | #2,448 | 12 | #757 | 65 |
| 1936 | #3,103 | 8 | #660 | 79 |
| 1935 | #4,204 | 5 | #548 | 110 |
| 1934 | #3,802 | 6 | #956 | 44 |
| 1933 | — | #1,586 | 19 | |
| 1932 | #3,568 | 7 | #1,509 | 22 |
| 1931 | — | #1,589 | 20 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,602 | 21 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,002 | 15 | |
| 1928 | — | #2,843 | 9 | |
| 1927 | #4,805 | 5 | #2,193 | 14 |
| 1926 | — | #2,725 | 10 | |
| 1925 | #4,426 | 6 | #2,193 | 14 |
| 1924 | — | #2,347 | 13 | |
| 1923 | — | #3,467 | 7 | |
| 1922 | — | #4,307 | 5 | |
| 1921 | — | #3,869 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kerry! It came in at #3,869, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1921–1923, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
See more about Kerry
- 223 spots since 2024 (#2,674 → #2,451)
- 529 spots since 2020 (#2,980 → #2,451)
- 262 spots since 2015 (#2,189 → #2,451)
- Biggest jump: 630 spots in 1934 (#1,586 → #956)
- Biggest drop: 311 spots in 2005 (#971 → #1,282)
- Debuted 1921
- Peaked 1960 at #158 (2,176 births)
- Births halved by 1968, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 67 yrs · run 1934–1999
- Highest: 1 in 980 boys born in 1960 were named Kerry (0.10%)
- Latest: 1 in 31,056 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 30.6% of all boys named Kerry (15,286) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2002, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 93 | #2,002 (1929) | #2,883 |
| 1930s | 537 | #548 (1935) | #1,057 |
| 1940s | 4,054 | #210 (1949) | #372 |
| 1950s | 14,416 | #170 (1954) | #185 |
| 1960s | 15,286 | #158 (1960) | #186 |
| 1970s | 6,662 | #243 (1970) | #297 |
| 1980s | 4,406 | #351 (1985) | #405 |
| 1990s | 2,510 | #483 (1990) | #709 |
| 2000s | 1,152 | #971 (2004) | #1,372 |
| 2010s | 578 | #1,942 (2013) | #2,297 |
| 2020s | 275 | #2,451 (2025) | #2,811 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kerry in 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
Top boys' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 12,744 of them was named Kerry, which outranked 92.4% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,363Tanisha142
- #1,363Tionna142
- #1,363Yessica142
- #1,370Kerry141
- #1,370Alannah141
- #1,370Anastacia141
- #1,370Mindy141
- #1,376Aiyanna140
- #1,376Aliah140
- #1,376Corina140
Tied with 5 names at #1,370; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,941,514 boys got a published name in 2002; 1 in 14,935 of them was named Kerry, which outranked 91.1% of the 12,489 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).