girls:
32k births since 1946
#785 (86th percentile)
boys:
325 births since 1958
#4261 (7th percentile)
overall:
32.4k births since 1946
#1411 (82nd percentile)
The name Keri is the #1,411 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 32,363 recorded births since 1946. This represents the 81.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 81.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #785 (86.3% percentile) for all time with 32,038 births since 1946. For boys, it ranks #4,261 (7.0% percentile) for all time with 325 births since 1958.
Keri first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1946 (1946 for girls and 1958 for boys).
The name Keri has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Keri reached its peak popularity in 1976, achieving the 77.9% percentile (ranked #169) with 933 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 962 births per million (ranked 77.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1978, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Keri ranks #934 for girls (1.4% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 1.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Keri reached its peak popularity in 1984, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #674) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2005.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Keri".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Keri is pronounced as KEH-ree, which has 2 syllables.
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