Kerby
#13,016 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kerby has been given to 1,006 babies in the U.S. since 1942. In 2025 it ranked #13,016 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1961, with 26 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 88% boys, 12% girls all-time.
Babies named Kerby, 2025
1 in 663,000
Kerby over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Kerby over time
In 2025, Kerby went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Kerby?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #13,016
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kerby sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kerby. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kerbys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kerby was born before 1976 — so the typical Kerby is around 49 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 19.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 14.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 853
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 19.5% of all recorded uses (172).
Is Kerby 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
- −1,323
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +129
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +91
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 19.2%
- Peak was 1961 (26)
- Years since peak
- 64
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 15.7% average annual change
Spellings of Kerby
Kerby is not the most common spelling — Jerry is, with 37.5% against Kerby's 0.05%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Kerby is used
Across 1910–2025, Kerby was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 261,901 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Kerby has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kerby around the world
Where Kerby 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.
- France2009–2025#6,424in 2025
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Kerby by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Kerby
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kerby
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.