Meaning not yet researched.
Cari: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #380 in 1976.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #380 in 1976; #9,580 in 2025. About 63% of babies named Cari in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,580 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1976, at #380.
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Cari: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 girls in 2025. Peak: #380 in 1976 · most girls in one year: 541 (1976).
In 2025, 10 US girls were named Cari, making it the 9,580th most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,745 places from #5,835 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 21 girls named Cari in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #380, reached in 1976. That year also had the most girls given the name: 541. For comparison, it was #5,156 in 2015 and #5,392 in 1950.
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Cari, making it the 10,901st most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,752 places from #12,653 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 5 boys named Cari in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #4,026, reached in 1972. The most boys given the name in a single year was 11, in 2020. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cari in 79 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1941 with 5 babies. In all, 12,870 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 4,451 babies named Cari.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 259 US girls were named Cari; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 38. In 2025 that was about 1 in 160,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Carrie (267,540 babies since 1880), Cary (29,827 babies since 1880), Kari (60,627 babies since 1880) and Carey (29,621 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cariah and Cahari are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cariah (108), Cahari (21).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Cari in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,580 | 6 | #10,901 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,835 | 5 | #12,653 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,895 | 8 | #9,055 |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,904 | 9 | #8,429 |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,037 | — | — |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,468 | 11 | #7,116 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,648 | 9 | #8,322 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,909 | 5 | #12,483 |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,950 | 5 | #12,599 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,025 | — | — |
| 2015 | 26 | #5,156 | — | — |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,028 | — | — |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,678 | — | — |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,135 | — | — |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,707 | — | — |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,222 | — | — |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,505 | — | — |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,602 | — | — |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,367 | — | — |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,213 | — | — |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,631 | — | — |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,242 | — | — |
| 2003 | 34 | #3,959 | — | — |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,487 | — | — |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,561 | — | — |
| 2000 | 46 | #3,034 | — | — |
| 1999 | 56 | #2,536 | — | — |
| 1998 | 61 | #2,313 | — | — |
| 1997 | 69 | #2,048 | — | — |
| 1996 | 99 | #1,577 | — | — |
| 1995 | 104 | #1,509 | — | — |
| 1994 | 171 | #1,061 | — | — |
| 1993 | 169 | #1,078 | — | — |
| 1992 | 154 | #1,146 | — | — |
| 1991 | 182 | #1,012 | — | — |
| 1990 | 195 | #962 | — | — |
| 1989 | 239 | #797 | 6 | #7,077 |
| 1988 | 280 | #685 | — | — |
| 1987 | 273 | #676 | — | — |
| 1986 | 258 | #703 | — | — |
| 1985 | 274 | #661 | — | — |
| 1984 | 278 | #633 | — | — |
| 1983 | 297 | #597 | — | — |
| 1982 | 396 | #508 | 5 | #6,501 |
| 1981 | 480 | #447 | 5 | #6,405 |
| 1980 | 293 | #622 | — | — |
| 1979 | 348 | #540 | 7 | #4,913 |
| 1978 | 421 | #469 | — | — |
| 1977 | 466 | #439 | 5 | #5,965 |
| 1976 | 541 | #380 | — | — |
| 1975 | 519 | #393 | — | — |
| 1974 | 477 | #414 | — | — |
| 1973 | 407 | #451 | — | — |
| 1972 | 387 | #469 | 7 | #4,026 |
| 1971 | 436 | #463 | — | — |
| 1970 | 430 | #473 | — | — |
| 1969 | 420 | #470 | — | — |
| 1968 | 405 | #477 | 5 | #4,209 |
| 1967 | 326 | #522 | 5 | #4,035 |
| 1966 | 256 | #592 | — | — |
| 1965 | 226 | #653 | — | — |
| 1964 | 261 | #628 | — | — |
| 1963 | 242 | #649 | 5 | #4,119 |
| 1962 | 235 | #664 | — | — |
| 1961 | 196 | #742 | — | — |
| 1960 | 189 | #740 | — | — |
| 1959 | 159 | #812 | — | — |
| 1958 | 106 | #1,008 | — | — |
| 1957 | 95 | #1,067 | 5 | #4,063 |
| 1956 | 67 | #1,273 | — | — |
| 1955 | 36 | #1,739 | — | — |
| 1954 | 27 | #2,030 | — | — |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,306 | — | — |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,589 | — | — |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,823 | — | — |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,392 | — | — |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,212 | — | — |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,326 | — | — |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,490 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).