Kerrilynn

Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Kerrilynn has been given to 76 babies in the U.S. since 1968. 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 9 recorded.

Babies named Kerrilynn, 1988

1 in 739,000

Kerrilynn over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

Kerrilynn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1988, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1988
1 in 739,000
5 of 3,694,212 births
Among girls only
1 in 356,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1988
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
512,128 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kerrilynn 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 1988 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 512,128 children born in 1988 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kerrilynn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kerrilynns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kerrilynn was born before 1978 — so the typical Kerrilynn is around 47 today.

Median birth year
1978
About 47 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
47.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
76
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1980s — 47.4% of all recorded uses (36).

Is Kerrilynn 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 (9)
Years since peak
39
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,411
1986

Spellings of Kerrilynn

Kerrilynn is not the most common spelling — Jerilynn is, with 25.5% against Kerrilynn's 1.5%.

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.

Kerrilynn around the world

Where Kerrilynn 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.

  • Canada
    1992–1995
    #2,576
    in 1995
  • South Australia
    1954–1954
    #475
    in 1954

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kerrilynn 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
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Best rank ever
#7,411
1986
Peak year
1986
9 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
1988
All-time count
76
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kerrilynn

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Sibling names for Kerrilynn

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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