Kerensa

Girls' name

Love

Kerensa has been given to 457 babies in the U.S. since 1965. 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 1971, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Kerensa, 2024

1 in 557,000

Kerensa over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kerensa: meaning, origin, and history

Love

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kerensa means

Kerensa means “love”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Kerensa is used in Cornish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 457 girls were recorded with the name Kerensa between 1965 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 30 in 1971; its best national rank was #2,511 in 1971.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Kerensa?

Kerensa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 557,000; 6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only: 1 in 270,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 386,177 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Kerensa 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kerensa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kerensas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kerensa was born before 1976 — so the typical Kerensa is around 49 today.

Median birth year: 1976; About 49 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 50.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 4.2%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 457; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 50.8% of all recorded uses (232).

Is Kerensa 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: —; 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 1971 (30)
Years since peak: 54; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 18.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,511; 1971

Spellings of Kerensa

Kerensa is not the most common spelling — Teresa is, with 85.6% against Kerensa's 0.09%.

Teresa85.6%416,044
Serena9.8%47,450
Teressa1.3%6,480
Keren1.0%5,014
Karena0.72%3,508
Keena0.45%2,195
Verena0.41%1,989
Tereasa0.29%1,415

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 Kerensa is used

Across 1910–2025, Kerensa was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,829,369 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —
2Texas1 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. Kerensa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kerensa around the world

Where Kerensa 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
1996–2024
#4,844
in 2024
South Australia
1968–1995
#712
in 1995

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kerensa 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: #2,511; 1971
Peak year: 1971; 30 that year
First recorded: 1965
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 457
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Kerensa

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

Kerigan Kerstyn Kerissa Kerilyn Kersten Keriann Keriana Kerryann Kerisha Kerrigan Kerriann Kerianne Kerly Kerina Kerline Keria Kerrin Kerrington Kerrianne Kerith Kerryn Kerria Kerstin Kerie

Sibling names for Kerensa

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

For a sister

Trena Charisse Darcie Michell Tressa Nicola Latonia Tisha

For a brother

Shon Darrick Judd Douglass Alfonzo Scottie Erich Edwardo

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