Keryl
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Keryl has been given to 66 babies in the U.S. since 1953. 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 1960, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Keryl, 1968
1 in 676,000
Keryl 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Keryl?
Keryl had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1968, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1968
- 1 in 676,000
- 5 of 3,378,301 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 328,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1968
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 468,333 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Keryl sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1968 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 468,333 children born in 1968 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keryl. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Keryls were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Keryl was born before 1958 — so the typical Keryl is around 67 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 53.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 66
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 53.0% of all recorded uses (35).
Is Keryl 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1960 (10)
- Years since peak
- 65
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 17.9% average annual change
Spellings of Keryl
Keryl is not the most common spelling — Cheryl is, with 56.9% against Keryl'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.
Keryl around the world
Where Keryl 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 Australia1945–2002#730in 2002
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Keryl by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Keryl
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Keryl
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.