Keri
#7,491 for girls in 2025, 14 births · Last seen for boys in 2005 at #11,472
Given to girls 99.0% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1976 · 1,466 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 32,061since 1946
Keri over time
Rank among girls' names. Keri has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,491 | 14 | — | |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | — | |
| 2023 | #6,409 | 18 | — | |
| 2022 | #7,631 | 14 | — | |
| 2021 | #8,024 | 13 | — | |
| 2020 | #7,212 | 15 | — | |
| 2019 | #7,342 | 15 | — | |
| 2018 | #5,152 | 25 | — | |
| 2017 | #4,066 | 36 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,849 | 39 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,767 | 40 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,778 | 40 | — | |
| 2013 | #4,002 | 37 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,364 | 48 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,434 | 75 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,589 | 70 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,643 | 69 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,663 | 69 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,750 | 66 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,438 | 76 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,160 | 85 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #2,326 | 74 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,579 | 122 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | #1,268 | 155 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,304 | 147 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | #1,035 | 203 | — | |
| 1999 | #880 | 243 | — | |
| 1998 | #852 | 250 | — | |
| 1997 | #785 | 265 | — | |
| 1996 | #693 | 312 | — | |
| 1995 | #646 | 334 | — | |
| 1994 | #568 | 407 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | #546 | 433 | #6,816 | 7 |
| 1992 | #511 | 466 | #6,128 | 8 |
| 1991 | #407 | 629 | #3,813 | 15 |
| 1990 | #388 | 678 | #5,823 | 8 |
| 1989 | #347 | 737 | #4,527 | 11 |
| 1988 | #297 | 832 | #4,162 | 11 |
| 1987 | #277 | 888 | #4,573 | 9 |
| 1986 | #272 | 912 | #3,653 | 12 |
| 1985 | #255 | 977 | #2,828 | 17 |
| 1984 | #219 | 1,195 | #2,529 | 19 |
| 1983 | #252 | 941 | #3,884 | 10 |
| 1982 | #255 | 982 | #3,966 | 10 |
| 1981 | #249 | 1,000 | #3,221 | 13 |
| 1980 | #261 | 982 | #5,525 | 6 |
| 1979 | #228 | 1,151 | #2,897 | 15 |
| 1978 | #197 | 1,323 | #3,400 | 11 |
| 1977 | #187 | 1,474 | #5,845 | 5 |
| 1976 | #173 | 1,466 | #4,418 | 7 |
| 1975 | #174 | 1,502 | #2,637 | 15 |
| 1974 | #205 | 1,231 | #2,358 | 17 |
| 1973 | #210 | 1,212 | #3,013 | 11 |
| 1972 | #246 | 1,115 | #2,323 | 16 |
| 1971 | #277 | 1,036 | #2,813 | 12 |
| 1970 | #329 | 802 | #3,836 | 7 |
| 1969 | #335 | 710 | — | |
| 1968 | #356 | 622 | #3,365 | 7 |
| 1967 | #421 | 490 | — | |
| 1966 | #526 | 321 | — | |
| 1965 | #531 | 324 | — | |
| 1964 | #524 | 352 | — | |
| 1963 | #565 | 302 | — | |
| 1962 | #623 | 261 | #4,033 | 5 |
| 1961 | #647 | 249 | — | |
| 1960 | #658 | 239 | #3,665 | 6 |
| 1959 | #692 | 209 | #3,290 | 7 |
| 1958 | #829 | 150 | #3,944 | 5 |
| 1957 | #958 | 116 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,016 | 101 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,320 | 58 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,256 | 62 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,565 | 39 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,713 | 33 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,064 | 23 | — | |
| 1950 | #3,052 | 12 | — | |
| 1949 | #2,999 | 12 | — | |
| 1948 | #3,137 | 11 | — | |
| 1947 | #3,240 | 11 | — | |
| 1946 | #3,994 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Keri! It came in at #3,994, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1946, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
Where Keri is popular in 1999
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Arkansas#278 · 1 in 1,309
- Kentucky#381 · 1 in 2,230
- Mississippi#474 · 1 in 2,361
- Connecticut#478 · 1 in 3,068
- Louisiana#504 · 1 in 2,754
Best ever in a state: #55 in Rhode Island, 1976.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | #278 | 9 | 1 in 1,309 |
| Kentucky | #381 | 9 | 1 in 2,230 |
| Mississippi | #474 | 5 | 1 in 2,361 |
| Connecticut | #478 | 5 | 1 in 3,068 |
| Louisiana | #504 | 8 | 1 in 2,754 |
| Ohio | #516 | 17 | 1 in 3,620 |
| Georgia | #560 | 13 | 1 in 3,518 |
| South Carolina | #564 | 5 | 1 in 3,393 |
| Tennessee | #576 | 8 | 1 in 3,828 |
| Pennsylvania | #610 | 13 | 1 in 4,456 |
| Alabama | #659 | 5 | 1 in 4,219 |
| New Jersey | #727 | 8 | 1 in 5,192 |
| New York | #731 | 20 | 1 in 4,991 |
| North Carolina | #739 | 8 | 1 in 5,312 |
| Missouri | #762 | 5 | 1 in 5,852 |
| Florida | #800 | 13 | 1 in 5,747 |
| Virginia | #896 | 5 | 1 in 6,871 |
| California | #1,164 | 22 | 1 in 9,957 |
| Michigan | #1,186 | 5 | 1 in 10,259 |
| Texas | #1,390 | 12 | 1 in 12,269 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Keri
- 4,670 spots since 2024 (#12,161 → #7,491)
- 279 spots since 2020 (#7,212 → #7,491)
- 3,724 spots since 2015 (#3,767 → #7,491)
- Biggest jump: 137 spots in 1959 (#829 → #692)
- Biggest drop: 155 spots in 2000 (#880 → #1,035)
- Debuted 1946
- Peaked 1976 at #173 (1,466 births)
- Births halved by 1990, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 43 yrs · run 1957–1999
- Highest: 1 in 971 girls born in 1975 were named Keri (0.10%)
- Latest: 1 in 114,805 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #173 in 1976, was only 1 in 999 (0.10%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 38.4% of all girls named Keri (12,312) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 41 | #2,999 (1949) | #3,343 |
| 1950s | 803 | #692 (1959) | #1,447 |
| 1960s | 3,870 | #335 (1969) | #519 |
| 1970s | 12,312 | #173 (1976) | #223 |
| 1980s | 9,446 | #219 (1984) | #268 |
| 1990s | 4,017 | #388 (1990) | #628 |
| 2000s | 1,066 | #1,035 (2000) | #2,017 |
| 2010s | 425 | #2,434 (2011) | #4,034 |
| 2020s | 81 | #6,409 (2023) | #8,155 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Keri in 1999
Top girls' names in 1999
More about 1999
girls
1,773,823 girls got a published name in 1999; 1 in 7,300 of them was named Keri, which outranked 94.8% of the 16,947 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).