girls:
37k births since 1945
#713 (88th percentile)
boys:
348 births since 1958
#4238 (8th percentile)
overall:
37.3k births since 1945
#1292 (83rd percentile)
The name Kerri is the #1,292 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 37,338 recorded births since 1945. This represents the 83.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 83.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #713 (87.5% percentile) for all time with 36,990 births since 1945. For boys, it ranks #4,238 (7.5% percentile) for all time with 348 births since 1958.
Kerri first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1945 (1945 for girls and 1958 for boys).
The name Kerri has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.1% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kerri reached its peak popularity in 1976, achieving the 78.4% percentile (ranked #165) with 959 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 1,023 births per million (ranked 78.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1976, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kerri ranks #940 for girls (0.7% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 0.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kerri reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #646) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kerri".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Kerri. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Kerri is pronounced as KEH-ree, which has 2 syllables.
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