Kerly

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Kerly is a given name, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Surrey, Kent, and Middx. nickname from Middle English kern, kirn, kurn, a side-form of chern ‘churn’ (see Churn ). Compare Kerner .

rarermore common
  • ECEcuador1 in 637◐
  • COColombia1 in 22K
  • VEVenezuela1 in 38K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈28K ●

across 6 countries

Sources
100 ●

13K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 637 ◐

Ecuador

Meaning & origin●

Main GB Location (1881): Surrey, Kent, and Middx. nickname from Middle English kern, kirn, kurn, a side-form of chern ‘churn’ (see Churn ). Compare Kerner .

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Kerly is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EC Ecuador#16926,532△703 rec.1 in 63727KKerly40
PE Peru—5,2773.7K rec.——Kerly34
VE Venezuela—5,0292.1K rec.—933Kerly21
CO Colombia—2,796772 rec.—1Kerly42
ES Spain—1,7861.7K rec.——Kerly47
BR Brazil—938664 rec.1 in 226K938Kerly58
US United States—3631.8K rec.1 in 916K363Kerly100
LA Laos—2960 rec.——Kerly1
AR Argentina—259190 rec.—2Kerly21
EE Estonia—24457 rec.—145Kerly16
HN Honduras—177174 rec.——Kerly9
CL Chile—17352 rec.—1Kerly17

Roughly 27K people in Ecuador bear this name (about 1 in 637). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish47K51%
  • English31K33%
  • Portuguese13K14%
  • Lao2961%
  • Indonesian2571%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish47,26951%
English30,59133%
Portuguese13,13614%
Lao2961%
Indonesian2571%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Kerly is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian given name57 records spelled Kerly4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Spain, Ecuador, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Керлы

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

05001K1.5K194019601980200020201.2K · 2006

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Kerly in INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024), Ecuador, 1937–2024
Yearrecords
19371
19381
19431
19501
19521
19531
19551
19566
19572
19581
19592
19602
19612
19624
19638
196416
196518
196613
196712
196821
196915
197026
197142
197234
197344
197457
197566
197640
197739
197843
197965
198070
1981107
1982191
1983180
1984187
1985214
1986196
1987163
1988230
1989236
1990264
1991349
1992422
1993424
1994540
1995659
1996540
1997608
1998778
1999821
2000904
2001818
2002851
20031,018
20041,037
20051,041
20061,180
20071,098
20081,039
20091,025
20101,056
2011932
2012986
2013847
2014787
2015779
2016587
2017602
2018479
2019408
2020311
2021358
2022307
2023208
2024171

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 76 years between 1937–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 26 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Kerly
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—27K—
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202427K#70
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20061.2K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20071.1K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20101.1K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20051K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20081K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20041K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20091K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20031K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2012986—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022938—

Reference works 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 157 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Kerly?
We estimate roughly 28 thousand people bear Kerly (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Kerly have the most bearers?
We estimate about 27 thousand people bear Kerly in Ecuador, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled kerly.
Where is Kerly most common?
Kerly is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 637 people carrying it.
How common is Kerly compared with other names?
In Ecuador, Kerly is the 169th most common given name of 26,367 given names recorded there.
Is Kerly a male or female name?
Kerly 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.
What does the name Kerly mean?
Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Surrey, Kent, and Middx. nickname from Middle English kern, kirn, kurn, a side-form of chern ‘churn’ (see Churn ). Compare Kerner .
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Kerly” — the 169th most common given name in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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