Kerre
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kerre has been given to 28 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 1969, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Kerre, 1986
1 in 711,000
Kerre 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kerre?
Kerre 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 711,000
- 5 of 3,556,724 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 343,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1986
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 493,068 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kerre sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 493,068 children born in 1986 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kerre. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kerres were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kerre was born before 1973 — so the typical Kerre is around 52 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 53.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 28
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 53.6% of all recorded uses (15).
Is Kerre 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 1969 (8)
- Years since peak
- 56
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Kerre
Kerre is not the most common spelling — Terri is, with 23.5% against Kerre's <0.01%.
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.
Kerre around the world
Where Kerre 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 Australia1970–1970#707in 1970
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kerre by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kerre
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kerre
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.