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Kerly

Girl · KER-lee

Kerly is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 7,489th for girls in the US (14 babies).

Where does Kerly come from?

Uncertain; perhaps a variant of Kelly

Say it
KER-lee

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

Kerly is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 14 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Kerly in the US?

Rank in 2025
#7,489among girls
Babies in 2025
14about 1 in 110,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 14 girls in the US were named Kerly, making it the 7,489th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. Its busiest year was 2024, with 17 girls. It first appears in the records in 1997.

Half of all the girls named Kerly in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.

1997Busiest: 17 in 20242025
Kerly in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202514#7,489
202417#6,639
202311#8,984
202213#8,027
20218#11,141
202012#8,401
20190–
20180–
20175#15,898
20167#12,871
20150–
20145#16,507
20130–
20120–
20115#16,756
20100–
20090–
20080–
20070–
20060–
20057#13,003
20045#16,092
20038#11,319
200213#7,810
20010–
20007#11,794
19990–
19985#14,116
19976#12,065

Names like Kerly

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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