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Kerrie

#16,140 in 2025Girls' name

Descendant of Ciardha, through Kerry

Kerrie has been given to 8,693 babies in the U.S. since 1944. In 2025 it ranked #16,140 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1971, with 419 recorded.

Babies named Kerrie, 2025

1 in 663,000

Kerrie over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kerrie: meaning, origin, and history

Descendant of Ciardha, through Kerry

surname transfer

What Kerrie means

Kerrie belongs to the name family reached through Kerrie → Kerry. Its meaning is “descendant of Ciardha”.

Origin, language, and formation

Kerrie is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Kerrie is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kerry.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,589 girls were recorded with the name Kerrie between 1944 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 419 in 1971; its best national rank was #470 in 1975.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #15,480 in 2015 to #16,140 in 2025.

In the United States, 104 boys were recorded with the name Kerrie between 1962 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1975; its best national rank was #2,876 in 1967.

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 Kerrie?

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 girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,140
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kerrie 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 2025 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kerrie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kerries were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kerrie was born before 1974 — so the typical Kerrie is around 51 today.

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
39.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
8,531
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1970s — 39.4% of all recorded uses (3,384).

Is Kerrie 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
−660
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.83×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
1.2%
Peak was 1971 (419)
Years since peak
54
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#470
1975

Spellings of Kerrie

Kerrie is not the most common spelling — Carrie is, with 30.8% against Kerrie's 0.99%.

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 Kerrie is used

Across 1910–2025, Kerrie was most concentrated in Rhode Island — about 1 in 5,000 girls, against 1 in 26,229 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

020 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Rhode Island1 in 5,000
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in 7,143
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 16,667
  4. 4Michigan1 in 16,667
  5. 5Utah1 in 16,667
  6. 6Washington1 in 16,667
  7. 7California1 in 20,000
  8. 8New York1 in 20,000

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. Kerrie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kerrie around the world

Where Kerrie 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
    1996–2012
    #4,838
    in 2012
  • Scotland
    1974–2007
    #552
    in 2007
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2011
    #363
    in 2011
  • Ireland
    1972–2021
    #764
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1991–1998
    #2,038
    in 1998
  • South Australia
    1946–1997
    #681
    in 1997
  • New South Wales
    1952–1975
    #78
    in 1975

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada, Consumer and Business Services (South Australia) and NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA, NSW BDM data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Kerrie

People whose public names include Kerrie, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Kerrie in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Kerrie. Linked forms have their own page here.

Kerri

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Kerrie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,140
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#470
1975
Peak year
1971
419 that year
First recorded
1944
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,589
Count in 2025
5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,876
1967
Peak year
1975
12 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
1993
All-time count
104
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kerrie

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

CorrieKerenKarrieEmerieKerieAverieAubrieLorrieAudrieValorieKerriKeraAmerieKarieKerryAmarieCherieKyrieKerriganMalorieValarieKeriCorieAvarie

Names with a curve like Kerrie

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kerrie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DionneLatanyaTawanaMichellMarciLatriciaTawnyaCariMalissaJeannaJeanaWendi

Sibling names for Kerrie

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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