Entry № 5396 · Irish origin

Kerri Kerri — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KAIR-ee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Irish
Meaning
"Dark / dusky (Kerri Walsh Jennings, 3-time Olympic gold beach volleyball)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Irish)

A name that means "dark / dusky (kerri walsh jennings, 3-time olympic gold beach volleyball)".

Kerri is the English-American spelling variant of the Irish Ciara — feminine of Ciar ("dark, black, dusky") — also the name of the southwestern Irish county Kerry. Kerri Russell is Keri (different spelling).

Subject of countless Olympic-beach-volleyball histories.

Dark / dusky (Kerri Walsh Jennings, 3-time Olympic gold beach volleyball) — a Irish name.

The name in its native script.

Kerri
Transliteration
Kerri
Pronunciation
/ ˈkɛr.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kerri stands.

Kerri does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Kerris before her.

Real people
Kerri Walsh Jennings
American Olympic beach volleyball.
born 1978
Kerri Strug
American gymnast.
born 1977
In fiction
Kerri
Various American TV.

Names connected to Kerri.

The number behind Kerri.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kerri reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.