Meaning not yet researched.
Kairi: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 239 in 2025. Its best rank was #689 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #689 in 2019; #1,041 in 2025. About 85% of babies named Kairi in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,041 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #689.
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Kairi: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 239 girls in 2025. Peak: #689 in 2019 · most girls in one year: 421 (2019).
In 2025, 239 US girls were named Kairi, making it the 1,041st most common girls’ name of the year, down 13 places from #1,028 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 245 girls named Kairi in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #689, reached in 2019. That year also had the most girls given the name: 421. For comparison, it was #769 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 42 US boys were named Kairi, making it the 2,958th most common boys’ name of the year, up 60 places from #3,018 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 41 boys named Kairi in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,812, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 46. For comparison, it was #5,399 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kairi in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 5 babies. In all, 6,825 US babies have been given the name, 92% of them girls and 8.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,490 babies named Kairi.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,206 US girls were named Kairi; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 421. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,725 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kairi ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #149 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kari (60,627 babies since 1880), Cari (12,870 babies since 1880), Karrie (9,870 babies since 1880) and Karie (5,356 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kaiyori 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Estonian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kaiyori (10).
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 Kairi in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 32 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 6 | #149 | — |
| Nevada | 6 | #468 | — |
| Utah | 7 | #568 | #530 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #773 | #548 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #780 | #641 |
| New York | 20 | #813 | #2,372 |
| California | 35 | #847 | #782 |
| Ohio | 10 | #921 | #721 |
| North Carolina | 10 | #942 | #1,315 |
| Illinois | 9 | #962 | #1,108 |
| Arizona | 6 | #969 | #900 |
| Indiana | 6 | #977 | #490 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,137 | #617 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,138 | #574 |
| Texas | 22 | #1,207 | #997 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,276 | #890 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,310 | #845 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,316 | #607 |
| Florida | 8 | #1,609 | #816 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 239 | #1,041 | 42 | #2,958 |
| 2024 | 245 | #1,028 | 41 | #3,018 |
| 2023 | 259 | #987 | 43 | #2,920 |
| 2022 | 291 | #929 | 46 | #2,812 |
| 2021 | 320 | #856 | 19 | #5,023 |
| 2020 | 330 | #826 | 34 | #3,304 |
| 2019 | 421 | #689 | 27 | #3,952 |
| 2018 | 402 | #714 | 28 | #3,835 |
| 2017 | 352 | #781 | 17 | #5,404 |
| 2016 | 347 | #827 | 15 | #5,919 |
| 2015 | 368 | #769 | 17 | #5,399 |
| 2014 | 306 | #889 | 12 | #6,849 |
| 2013 | 300 | #862 | 11 | #7,290 |
| 2012 | 299 | #885 | 13 | #6,488 |
| 2011 | 271 | #950 | 10 | #7,788 |
| 2010 | 267 | #960 | 7 | #10,211 |
| 2009 | 233 | #1,097 | 8 | #9,430 |
| 2008 | 241 | #1,084 | 7 | #10,459 |
| 2007 | 244 | #1,079 | 10 | #7,880 |
| 2006 | 202 | #1,199 | 12 | #6,678 |
| 2005 | 104 | #1,866 | — | — |
| 2004 | 105 | #1,814 | 6 | #10,655 |
| 2003 | 91 | #1,995 | 11 | #6,494 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,633 | 11 | #6,313 |
| 2001 | — | — | 10 | #6,706 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,213 | 8 | #7,822 |
| 1999 | — | — | 9 | #6,812 |
| 1998 | — | — | 9 | #6,564 |
| 1997 | — | — | 7 | #7,692 |
| 1996 | — | — | 7 | #7,545 |
| 1995 | — | — | 10 | #5,703 |
| 1992 | — | — | 5 | #9,105 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #8,795 |
| 1982 | — | — | 7 | #5,313 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,779 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,094 | 7 | #5,227 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,482 |
| 1976 | — | — | 10 | #3,605 |
| 1975 | — | — | 12 | #3,150 |
| 1974 | — | — | 5 | #5,605 |
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).