Cairi — unisex name
33 babies named Cairi in U.S. Social Security records since 2011, with the highest year being 2012. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
100% of everyone ever named Cairi was born in this single decade.
9 babies were named Cairi in 2012 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Cairi
The Social Security Administration has registered 33 babies named Cairi between 2011 and 2017, spanning 7 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Cairi currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 9 babies received it in a single year. Cairi is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 10 additional births since 2020.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Cairi performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 33 births during that ten-year window.
No etymological entry is currently available for Cairi in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 33 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Cairi at a glance
Last recorded 2017Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Cairi popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–2011
- Peak year (2012)
- 9
- Annual births at peak — across 7 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2017.
33 total births across 7 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2012 with 9 births in a single year.
Cairi popularity over time — boys
10 total births recorded since 2020 (Cairi as boys' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The boys' variant of Cairi accounts for 23% of total recorded use across both genders.
Cairi by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 33 births that decade — 100% of Cairi's all-time total
Cairi decade highlights
- Peak decade 33 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Cairi's strongest decade
33 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 100% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2011–2017 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.