Kerry
Kerry is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 49 births. Its best rank was 158th, in 1960.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 490.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 19602,176 births
- Best rank
- #158in 1960
- Since 1921
- 98,563people given the name
The story in the numbers
49,911 boys have been named Kerry in the United States since 1921, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1960, with 2,176 births — 0.10% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 49 births in 2024, against 2,176 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1962, and the 1960s alone account for 31%. It has spent 67 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Kerry is used for both sexes: 49% of its bearers are girls (48,652), most of them born around 1971.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Kerry | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 93 | |
| 1930s | 537 | |
| 1940s | 4,053 | |
| 1950s | 14,417 | |
| 1960s | 15,283 | |
| 1970s | 6,662 | |
| 1980s | 4,406 | |
| 1990s | 2,510 | |
| 2000s | 1,152 | |
| 2010s | 578 | |
| 2020s | 220 |
In 1960, its biggest year
Kerry was the 158th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1960 were David, Michael, James, John and Robert. See all of 1960.
Names that rose and fell with Kerry
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Randallpeak 1960
- Jeffrypeak 1956
- Markpeak 1960
- Darrypeak 1960
- Greggpeak 1962
- Gregorypeak 1962
- Ricpeak 1958
- Randalpeak 1958
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.