Given name & surname
Kersey
“cress”·“island”
Kersey is a surname from Proto-West Germanic, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Kersey is built from elements meaning “cress” and “island”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Kersey comes from Proto-West Germanic, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-West Germanic *auwju, from Proto-Germanic *awjō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1989. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kersey through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 71
- 19 boys · 52 girls
- Most popular year
- 1991
- 20 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2012. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 11 in 1991. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 158 as a first name in 2020; 7,813 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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