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Kerry
Pronounced /ˈkɛɹi/
Rank in 2024
#2,686
Born in 2024
49
Peak year
1960 · #158
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:8 in 2024 (#11,577)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 49 boys were named Kerry, about 1 in every 35,006.
- It peaked in 1960 with 2,176 babies, ranked #158.
- It first shows up in the records in 1921.
- 49,911 boys have been named Kerry since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Kerry per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.7Boomers1946–64
- 0.5Gen X1965–80
- 0.2Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 69 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 1,746 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Boomers: 26,671 babies, 0.71 per 1,000. Gen X: 12,990 babies, 0.48 per 1,000. Millennials: 5,997 babies, 0.20 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,819 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 619 babies, 0.03 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
As an English surname, from a personal name derived from Old Norse Kári. As an Irish surname, from Ó Ciardha (“descendant of Ciardha”), from ciar (“black”).
- A surname from Middle English derived from the place name, or from the Middle English given name Kendrick.
- A male given name transferred from the surname or place name.
- A female given name transferred from the surname or place name, originally of Australian usage, also spelled Keri, Kerri and Kerrie.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈkɛɹi/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Kerry, CC BY-SA 4.0.