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Kerrie

Gender
Girl
Origin
English
US rank, 2025
#14,937 for girls

Kerrie is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “descendant of Ciardha”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).

What does Kerrie mean?

English: spelling of Kerry

“descendant of Ciardha”

A surname from Middle English derived from the place name, or from the Middle English given name Kendrick.

Meaning borrowed from Kerry. From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

Kerrie is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Kerrie in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1996, with 84 girls.

Half of all the girls named Kerrie in the UK since 1996 were born between 1997 and 2003. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

1996Busiest: 84 in 19962022
Kerrie in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20221#7,487
20210–
20200–
20190–
20180–
20170–
20160–
20150–
20140–
20130–
20124#5,058
20116#3,737
201010#2,540
200912#2,153
200819#1,548
200718#1,544
200611#2,119
200523#1,172
200414#1,634
200336#804
200233#812
200144#649
200055#563
199960#531
199853#567
199783#432
199684#417

How popular is Kerrie in the US?

Rank in 2025
14,937th among girls
Babies in 2025
5 about 1 in 320,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Kerrie, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 1971, with 419 girls. It first appears in the records in 1944.

2025 had more girls named Kerrie than any year since 2018.

Half of all the girls named Kerrie in the US since 1880 were born between 1968 and 1981, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 51 girls in the US were given Kerrie or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,538, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.

1944Busiest: 419 in 19712025
Kerrie in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20255#14,937
20240–
20230–
20220–
20210–
20200–
20190–
20187#12,459
20175#15,898
20160–
20156#14,477
20145#16,507
20137#13,145
20120–
20116#14,816
20108#12,270
20097#13,698
200812#9,472
200715#8,094
200612#9,282
200510#10,123
200410#9,887
200319#6,050
200224#4,902
200121#5,359
200037#3,522
199945#2,932
199836#3,350
199744#2,773
199646#2,668
199549#2,547
199468#2,042
199365#2,085
199279#1,814
1991108#1,459
1990104#1,489
1989128#1,236
1988121#1,229
1987126#1,162
1986164#958
1985169#931
1984179#855
1983152#959
1982162#928
1981192#822
1980202#803
1979254#677
1978224#705
1977291#593
1976347#511
1975397#469
1974359#489
1973335#510
1972382#472
1971419#474
1970376#517
1969342#534
1968306#555
1967238#616
1966160#776
1965184#734
1964252#644
1963167#803
1962151#859
1961147#879
1960126#949
1959128#920
195893#1,088
195794#1,071
195677#1,185
195556#1,346
195459#1,284
195337#1,621
195231#1,780
195125#1,967
195019#2,252
194912#2,998
194814#2,700
194713#2,897
19467#3,993
19455#4,554
19447#3,685

Names like Kerrie

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Kerrie: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kerrie, updated 20 October 2026.