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. A top-200 US baby name from 1968 to 1994. Kerri Walsh Jennings (born 1978) — American beach volleyball player; three-time Olympic gold medalist (Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, London 2012) with partner Misty May-Treanor — the only Olympic beach volleyball partnership ever to win three consecutive gold medals; bronze at Rio 2016 with April Ross. The longest unbeaten run in Olympic beach volleyball history (21 consecutive Olympic match victories over three Games). Tokyo 2020 Olympic team alternate at age 42 (her 5th Olympics consideration). Founded p1440 ("Play 1440 minutes a day") with husband Casey Jennings — a beach volleyball lifestyle company. Kerri Strug (born 1977) — American gymnast; her 1996 vault on an injured ankle clinched the US team gold at Atlanta. Kerri Russell is Keri (different spelling).
Subject of countless Olympic-beach-volleyball histories.
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.
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.