Kerryn
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɝɹɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kerryn is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Australia than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 7.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1M
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 24K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Australia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 181 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kerryn counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AU Australia | #799 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | 3 | Kerryn | 153 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Kerryn | 48 |
| US United States | — | 326 | 1 in 1M | 303 | Kerryn | 181 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 288K | 3 | Kerryn | 99 |
| NZ New Zealand | #874 | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 10 | Kerryn | 56 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 266K | — | Kerryn | 13 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kerryn Tolhurstb. 1948AUAustralian musician
- Kerryn Goldsworthyb. 1953AUAustralian writer
- Kerryn Phelpsb. 1957AUAustralian doctor and politician
- Keryn Prattb. 1959AUnot in their usual nameAustralian tennis player
- Kerryn Rimb. 1962AUAustralian biathlete
- Kerryn McCannb. 1967AUAustralian long distance runner
- Kerryn Petersonb. 1992AUAustralian rules footballer and basketballer
- Kerryn Herbstb. 2002ZASouth African swimmer
- Kerryn BeatonNZNew Zealand barrister
- Kerryn PalmerNZNew Zealand theatre director and playwright
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 303 | #27,859 |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1976 | 24 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 23 | #27,859 |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1985 | 22 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1977 | 22 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1975 | 20 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1974 | 20 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 1970 | 20 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1970 | 20 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1973 | 19 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1982 | 18 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1971 | 16 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kerryn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 326 people named Kerryn in 2020, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
- How common is Kerryn compared with other names?
- In Australia, Kerryn is the 799th most common given name of 205,854 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Kerryn?
- A machine transcription gives /kɝɹɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Kerryn a male or female name?
- Kerryn is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Kerryn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.4 thousand people named Kerryn in Australia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kerryn.
What do you want to know about Kerryn?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kerrynThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kerryn” — the 799th most common given name in Australia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.