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Kerrin

1,004 US births on record

Where Kerrin stands

United States register · 1880–2025

1,004US births · 1950–2025

Kerrin has been registered 1,004 times in the United States since 1950. It did not clear the 5-birth reporting floor in 2025, so the SSA published no figure for it that year.

peak 1992 · 43BELOW THE 5-BIRTH FLOOR — NOT PUBLISHED188019532025

Its moment was 1992, when 43 babies were given it. In 3 of the years between, the name fell under the 5-birth floor and the registrar published nothing — those years are the marks along the base of the chart, not gaps in the name's use.

SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

<5US births in 2025 — below the reporting floor, so not published
#2,222its best US rank, in 1972
1992peak year — 43 births
1,004US births since 1950
11NZ births since 1970
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How Kerrin's figures are worked out

  1. Counts come straight from the registrars: the US Social Security Administration (1880–2025) and the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (1900–2025). Nothing is scraped from another names site. The SSA files are the agency's own, retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified.
  2. Ranks are computed against every name in that year's file, not just the ones this site publishes pages for — otherwise a rank would flatter every name we happen to list.
  3. The curve is drawn on births per 100,000 of that sex, not raw counts. Raw counts across eras are misleading: far more births were registered in 1957 than in 1890, so a flat count is a falling share.
  4. The reporting floor. Each registrar publishes a name only once it clears a threshold — 5 births of that sex in the US, 10 in New Zealand. Expressed as a share that threshold is itself a curve, and it is drawn on every chart here as the shaded band along the base.
  5. A missing year is a suppressed value, never a zero. Where the registrar published nothing, this site prints “below floor” or “<5”, the curve is broken rather than drawn across the gap, and the missing years are marked on the floor line. Kerrin was under the floor in 3 years of its US record.
share per 100,000 = births ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000
reporting floor (share) = 5 ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000

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Kerrin in the United States

18801900192019401960198020002020NOT PUBLISHED — BELOW THE 5-BIRTH FLOOR0.01.22.3
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 5-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Kerrin in the United States, 1880–2025

Between 2000 and 2009 the name has been steady.

SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Kerrin in New Zealand

In New Zealand, Kerrin has been registered 11 times since 1970, peaking in 1970 with 11 births. It did not clear the DIA's 10-birth reporting floor in 2025.

1900192019401960198020002020NOT PUBLISHED — BELOW THE 10-BIRTH FLOOR0.02244
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 10-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Kerrin in New Zealand, 1900–2025

SOURCE·NZ Department of Internal Affairs, births by first name·CC BY 4.0. DIA lists a name only if it was given to at least 10 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Kerrin in England & Wales

Kerrin does not appear in the ONS list for England and Wales. That means it was given to fewer than 3 babies in every year from 2019 to 2025 — not that it is unused there. ONS publishes only those seven years, so a name that had its moment in England before 2019 is invisible here however common it once was.

SOURCE·Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales·Open Government Licence v3.0. ONS redacts any name given to 2 or fewer babies of that sex that year, under s40 of the Freedom of Information Act.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Decade by decade in the US

US rank and births at each decade markSSA · JUL 2026
YearRankBirths
1950#4,3157
1960#6,3905
1970#2,45030
1980#3,60922
1990#4,52321
2000#11,8017
2010below floor<5
2020below floor<5

<5 = the SSA published no figure for that year. It is a suppressed value, not a zero.

Where in the United States

The states that registered Kerrin most often since 1950. These are lifetime totals, so they track state population as much as local taste — a name common in Wyoming will never out-count California.

Questions about Kerrin

How popular is the name Kerrin?

Kerrin did not clear the 5-birth reporting floor in 2025, so no figure was published for it that year. Its best US rank was #2,222 in 1972.

When was Kerrin most popular?

Kerrin peaked in 1992, when 43 babies in the United States were given the name.

Is Kerrin rising or falling?

Measured as a share of all girls' births, Kerrin has been steady between 2000 and 2009.

Same sex, peaking within a few years of 1992, at a comparable scale. Not a taste engine — this is arithmetic on peak years, which is why it will occasionally hand you something unfashionable that is nonetheless exactly of the period.

SOURCE·US SSA (1880–2025) + NZ DIA (1900–2025) birth registrations·ranks and shares computed from the source files, see method·REVIEWED JUL 2026

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