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Keri

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Keri is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 7 births. Its best rank was 173rd, in 1976.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
70.00% of girls
Peak year
19751,502 births
Best rank
#173in 1976
Since 1946
32,047people given the name
Babies named Keri, by year of birthgirls
05001k1.5k2k18801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

32,047 girls have been named Keri in the United States since 1946, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1975, with 1,502 births — 0.10% of all girls recorded that year.

The name has all but left use: 7 births in 2024, against 1,502 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1979, and the 1970s alone account for 38%. It has spent 43 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadegirls named Keri
1940s41
1950s803
1960s3,870
1970s12,312
1980s9,446
1990s4,017
2000s1,066
2010s425
2020s67

In 1975, its biggest year

Keri was the 174th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1975 were Jennifer, Amy, Heather, Melissa and Angela. See all of 1975.

Names that rose and fell with Keri

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

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.