Given name
Kerrie
“having black hair”
In English use, Kerrie has a related form in Kerry. One interpretation is “having black hair.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In English use, Kerrie has a related form in Kerry. One interpretation is “having black hair.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Kerrie is a form of Kerry. Kerry has more than one origin: as an English surname, it comes from Old Norse Kári; as an Irish surname, it goes back to a word meaning “descendant of Ciardha”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1944. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kerrie through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 8,693
- 104 boys · 8,589 girls
- Most popular year
- 1971
- 425 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #16,144 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 16,144 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 419 in 1971. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 7,918 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kerrie’s family of names
In English usage, Kerrie has a related form in Kerry.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Kerrie
- Kerrie KeaneCanadian actressborn 1953
- Kerrie MearesAustralian racing cyclistborn 1982
- Kerrie WilsonAustralian ecologistborn 2000
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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