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Keerthi

Girls' name

To praise, through கீர்த்தி

Keerthi has been given to 253 babies in the U.S. since 1984. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2011, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Keerthi, 2019

1 in 434,000

Keerthi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Keerthi: meaning, origin, and history

To praise, through கீர்த்தி

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Keerthi means

Keerthi belongs to the name family reached through Keerthi → கீர்த்தி → कीर्ति. Its meaning is “to praise”.

Origin, language, and formation

Keerthi is used in English.

Keerthi comes through Tamil கீர்த்தி.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kirti, கீர்த்தி and कीर्ति.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 253 girls were recorded with the name Keerthi between 1984 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 21 in 2011; its best national rank was #6,241 in 2011.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Keerthi?

Keerthi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 434,000
8 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 210,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
300,847 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Keerthi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 300,847 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keerthi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Keerthis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Keerthi was born before 2008 — so the typical Keerthi is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
47.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
253
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Choose a decade

2000s — 47.4% of all recorded uses (120).

Is Keerthi rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2011 (21)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,241
2011

Where Keerthi is used

Across 1910–2025, Keerthi was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 812,167 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in —
  2. 2Virginia1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Keerthi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Keerthi around the world

Where Keerthi ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2010–2011
    #5,785
    in 2011
  • France
    2016–2016
    #6,225
    in 2016

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Keerthi by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,241
2011
Peak year
2011
21 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
253
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Keerthi

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Keerthi

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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