Meaning not yet researched.
Kaori: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 98 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,902 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,902 in 2022; #1,970 in 2025. About 95% of babies named Kaori in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,970 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #1,902.
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Kaori: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 98 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,902 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 106 (2022).
In 2025, 98 US girls were named Kaori, making it the 1,970th most common girls’ name of the year, up 350 places from #2,320 in 2024. That is 18 more than the 80 girls named Kaori in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,902, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 106. For comparison, it was #5,208 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaori in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 5 babies. In all, 1,482 US babies have been given the name, 95% of them girls and 4.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 540 babies named Kaori.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 694 US girls were named Kaori; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 106. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,401 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kaori ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #646 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 Kairi (6,825 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kayouri 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: Kayouri (8).
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 Kaori 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 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 7 | #646 | — |
| Georgia | 11 | #884 | — |
| Florida | 9 | #1,493 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,506 | — |
| New York | 7 | #1,742 | — |
| Texas | 8 | #2,518 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 98 | #1,970 | 5 | #12,965 |
| 2024 | 80 | #2,320 | — | — |
| 2023 | 100 | #1,975 | 6 | #11,532 |
| 2022 | 106 | #1,902 | — | — |
| 2021 | 93 | #2,060 | 6 | #11,443 |
| 2020 | 46 | #3,362 | — | — |
| 2019 | 49 | #3,252 | — | — |
| 2018 | 44 | #3,534 | — | — |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,886 | 7 | #10,232 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,890 | 5 | #13,215 |
| 2015 | 26 | #5,208 | — | — |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,601 | — | — |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,211 | — | — |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,467 | — | — |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,749 | 5 | #13,341 |
| 2010 | 41 | #3,779 | — | — |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,868 | 9 | #8,672 |
| 2008 | 56 | #3,070 | 5 | #13,576 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,457 | 8 | #9,335 |
| 2006 | 53 | #3,154 | 5 | #13,029 |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,530 | 7 | #9,635 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,653 | — | — |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,603 | 5 | #11,832 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,125 | — | — |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,965 | — | — |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,790 | — | — |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,877 | — | — |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,678 | — | — |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,035 | — | — |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,156 | — | — |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,109 | — | — |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,097 | — | — |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,766 | — | — |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,834 | — | — |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,277 | — | — |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,162 | — | — |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,198 | — | — |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,012 | — | — |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,028 | — | — |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,105 | — | — |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,900 | — | — |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,545 | — | — |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,144 | — | — |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,489 | — | — |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,025 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,952 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,594 | — | — |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,122 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,984 | — | — |
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).