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Kerryn

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Kerryn has been given to 187 babies in the U.S. since 1961. 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 1990, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Kerryn, 2007

1 in 666,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kerryn: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kerryn means

Kerryn is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Kerryn is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 187 girls were recorded with the name Kerryn between 1961 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1990; its best national rank was #6,367 in 1964.

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 Kerryn?

Kerryn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2007
1 in 666,000
6 of 3,997,748 births
Among girls only
1 in 320,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2007
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
461,839 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kerryn 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 2007 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 461,839 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kerryn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kerryns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kerryn was born before 1990 — so the typical Kerryn is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
31.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
65.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
187
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 31.6% of all recorded uses (59).

Is Kerryn 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 1990 (11)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,367
1964

Spellings of Kerryn

Kerryn is not the most common spelling — Terry is, with 30.3% against Kerryn's 0.06%.

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 Kerryn is used

Across 1910–2025, Kerryn was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,752,106 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 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. Kerryn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kerryn around the world

Where Kerryn 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
    #5,876
    in 2012
  • Scotland
    1995–2008
    #793
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1948–1996
    #712
    in 1996

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

Kerryn 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
#6,367
1964
Peak year
1990
11 that year
First recorded
1961
Last recorded
2007
All-time count
187
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kerryn

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

KerynKerlyKerithKerriaEmerynKerinaTorrynFarrynKeriganMerrynKorrynAmrynKerahKambrynKerianaAubrynKerishaAirynMerynKerstiSarynTerrynKerbyEveryn

Sibling names for Kerryn

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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