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Kerah

Gender
Girl
Say it
KEER-uh
Origin
Irish

Kerah is a girls' name of Irish origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Kerah come from?

Irish: spelling of Kera; probably a spelling of Keira, from Irish Ciara

Meaning borrowed from Kera.

Is Kerah a girl's or a boy's name?

Kerah is a girls' name.

How popular is Kerah in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2006, with 12 girls. It first appears in the records in 1987.

Half of all the girls named Kerah in the US since 1880 were born between 2000 and 2010, the years shaded on the chart below.

1987Busiest: 12 in 20062018
Kerah in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20185#15,677
20175#15,898
20160–
20150–
20146#14,552
20139#10,995
20129#11,251
201111#9,719
20108#12,270
200911#9,971
200811#10,080
200712#9,535
200612#9,282
20059#10,915
20049#10,684
20037#12,401
20028#11,102
20019#10,095
20007#11,794
19998#10,338
19988#10,116
19970–
19968#9,576
19950–
19940–
19930–
19928#9,483
19910–
19906#11,403
19890–
19880–
198711#6,330

Names like Kerah

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Kerah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kerah, updated 20 October 2026.