Kerilee

Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Kerilee has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 1973. 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 1986, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Kerilee, 1986

1 in 593,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Kerilee?

Kerilee had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1986, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1986
1 in 593,000
6 of 3,556,724 births
Among girls only
1 in 286,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1986
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
410,890 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kerilee 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 1986 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 410,890 children born in 1986 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kerilee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kerilees were born

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

Median birth year
1976
About 49 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
62.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
16
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 62.5% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Kerilee 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1986 (6)
Years since peak
39
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#9,025
1973

Spellings of Kerilee

Kerilee is not the most common spelling — Emilee is, with 28.7% against Kerilee's 0.02%.

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.

Kerilee around the world

Where Kerilee 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.

  • South Australia
    1981–1981
    #616
    in 1981

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kerilee 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
#9,025
1973
Peak year
1986
6 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
1986
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kerilee

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

Sibling names for Kerilee

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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