Is Kerry a male or female name?
Kerry is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in England and Wales at 99% and male usage in United States at 51%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 53%
- Sample size
- 107,228
- Confidence
- high
Kerry by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | male | 51% | 98,557 | ssa |
| England and Wales GB | female | 99% | 7,201 | nrs |
| Ireland IE | female | 98% | 616 | cso |
| Canada CA | female | 59% | 469 | statcan |
| France FR | male | 78% | 250 | insee |
| Switzerland CH | female | 70% | 102 | bfs |
| Poland PL | female | 78% | 23 | pesel |
| Austria AT | female | 70% | 10 | statat |
Attested in 15 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AT · AU · BE · CA · CH · ES · FR · GB · IE · IN · NZ · PL · SE · US · ZA
Kerry over time
In the United States, 14.7% of the babies named Kerry in the 1920s were girls, against 26% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 15% | 109 |
| 1930s | 10% | 596 |
| 1940s | 26% | 5,515 |
| 1950s | 31% | 20,853 |
| 1960s | 44% | 27,509 |
| 1970s | 71% | 22,789 |
| 1980s | 63% | 11,997 |
| 1990s | 58% | 5,949 |
| 2000s | 44% | 2,075 |
| 2010s | 34% | 869 |
| 2020s | 26% | 296 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Kerry with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Kerry&country=US" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Kerry
Is Kerry a male or female name?
Kerry is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in England and Wales at 99% and male usage in United States at 51%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Kerry change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Kerry identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.