Kerby
Kerby is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 196127 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1942
- 1,001people given the name
The story in the numbers
879 boys have been named Kerby in the United States since 1942, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1961, with 27 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1976, and the 1960s alone account for 20%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 122 girls have also been given it, 12% of the total.
By decade
In 1961, its biggest year
Kerby was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1961 were Michael, David, John, James and Robert. See all of 1961.
Names that rose and fell with Kerby
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kevinpeak 1963
- Brienpeak 1963
- Renardpeak 1970
- Greggorypeak 1963
- Wilfredopeak 1980
- Lancepeak 1970
- Brittpeak 1960
- Kelvinpeak 1961
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.