Meaning not yet researched.
Kahari: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 77 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,586 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,586 in 2023; #1,984 in 2025. About 75% of babies named Kahari in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,984 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #1,586.
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Kahari: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 77 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,586 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 110 (2023).
In 2025, 77 US boys were named Kahari, making it the 1,984th most common boys’ name of the year, up 84 places from #2,068 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 73 boys named Kahari in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,586, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 110. For comparison, it was #5,169 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 25 US girls were named Kahari, making it the 5,155th most common girls’ name of the year, up 3,022 places from #8,177 in 2024. That is 12 more than the 13 girls named Kahari in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #5,155, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 25. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kahari in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1990 with 6 babies. In all, 1,067 US babies have been given the name, 9.9% of them girls and 90% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 551 babies named Kahari.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 595 US boys were named Kahari; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 110. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,183 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kahari ranked highest in Illinois in 2025, at #973 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kari (60,627 babies since 1880), Kairi (6,825 babies since 1880), Karri (4,499 babies since 1880) and Kaori (1,482 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kayarii 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: Kayarii (5).
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 Kahari in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 8 | #973 | #1,432 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,089 | — |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,286 | — |
| Florida | 7 | #1,546 | — |
| Texas | 6 | #2,422 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,155 | 77 | #1,984 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,177 | 73 | #2,068 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,281 | 110 | #1,586 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,813 | 106 | #1,637 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,607 | 68 | #2,121 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,764 | 39 | #3,002 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,850 | 44 | #2,830 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,813 | 24 | #4,297 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,164 | 34 | #3,341 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,571 | 20 | #4,862 |
| 2015 | — | — | 18 | #5,169 |
| 2014 | — | — | 20 | #4,775 |
| 2013 | — | — | 10 | #7,819 |
| 2012 | — | — | 15 | #5,849 |
| 2011 | — | — | 14 | #6,098 |
| 2010 | — | — | 8 | #9,231 |
| 2009 | — | — | 17 | #5,426 |
| 2008 | — | — | 14 | #6,255 |
| 2007 | — | — | 21 | #4,572 |
| 2006 | — | — | 14 | #5,946 |
| 2005 | — | — | 17 | #4,932 |
| 2004 | — | — | 23 | #3,942 |
| 2003 | — | — | 22 | #3,904 |
| 2002 | — | — | 21 | #3,974 |
| 2001 | — | — | 16 | #4,785 |
| 2000 | — | — | 14 | #5,182 |
| 1999 | — | — | 18 | #4,082 |
| 1998 | — | — | 19 | #3,777 |
| 1997 | — | — | 16 | #4,148 |
| 1996 | — | — | 9 | #6,248 |
| 1995 | — | — | 12 | #4,958 |
| 1994 | — | — | 12 | #4,956 |
| 1993 | — | — | 10 | #5,566 |
| 1990 | — | — | 6 | #7,623 |
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).