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Kerby

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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
Babies named Kerby, by year of birthboys
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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

Decadeboys named Kerby
1940s31
1950s129
1960s172
1970s147
1980s134
1990s133
2000s88
2010s28
2020s17

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.

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.