first name
KERRI
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 33,369 people named Kerri, 90.2% reported their origin as White, 3.9% as Black and 2.6% as two or more races. 99.3% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Kerri peaked in 1975, when 1,616 babies got the name.
At least 37,369 babies have been given the name since 1945. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Kerri by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #359. The largest share of babies named Kerri, 54.6%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Kerri is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kerri has been most common in Rhode Island (7.6×), Massachusetts (3.2×), and New Hampshire (1.7×), and least common in Hawaii (0.28×).
34,410 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Kerri, most common first.
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