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Keryn

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Keryn has been given to 320 babies in the U.S. since 1962. 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 1984, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Keryn, 2011

1 in 610,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Keryn: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Keryn means

Keryn is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Keryn is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 320 girls were recorded with the name Keryn between 1962 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1984; its best national rank was #4,409 in 1984.

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 Keryn?

Keryn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 610,000
6 of 3,657,935 births
Among girls only
1 in 293,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
422,582 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Keryn 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 2011 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 422,582 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keryn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Keryns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Keryn was born before 1986 — so the typical Keryn is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
37.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
49.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
320
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 37.8% of all recorded uses (121).

Is Keryn 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 1984 (17)
Years since peak
41
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,409
1984

Spellings of Keryn

Keryn is not the most common spelling — Karen is, with 56.3% against Keryn's 0.02%.

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 Keryn is used

Across 1910–2025, Keryn was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 605,539 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 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. Keryn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Keryn around the world

Where Keryn 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
    1996–2011
    #5,785
    in 2011
  • Scotland
    1999–2016
    #798
    in 2016
  • South Australia
    1947–2007
    #803
    in 2007

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.

Keryn 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
—
Best rank ever
#4,409
1984
Peak year
1984
17 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
320
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Keryn

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

KerrynKerlyKerieSarynMerynTorynFarynKeriaKerahAmrynKeriganMerrynAirynKorrynFarrynKerbyKorynTorrynEvrynCorynKerinaEmrynArrynAubryn

Sibling names for Keryn

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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