Kahari
Kahari is given to both girls and boys: 25 girls and 77 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,154 among girls’ names and #1,984 among boys’, #3,495 among all names counting both); 1,067 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,060 Americans named Kahari and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kahari by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kahari?
#1,984 among boys’ names, 2025
Kahari rose from #5,166 in 2015 to #1,984 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 9.4 to 45.1 per million.
121 babies in 2023, the peak
Kahari peaked in 2023, when 121 babies were given it (110 boys, #1,586 among boys’ names). The 102 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 84% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 77 | #1,984 | 45.1 |
| 2024 | 73 | #2,068 | 42.4 |
| 2023 | 110 | #1,586 | 64.3 |
| 2022 | 106 | #1,637 | 60.7 |
| 2021 | 68 | #2,120 | 38.9 |
| 2020 | 39 | #3,001 | 22.6 |
| 2019 | 44 | #2,829 | 24.5 |
| 2018 | 24 | #4,293 | 13.2 |
| 2017 | 34 | #3,339 | 18.4 |
| 2016 | 20 | #4,860 | 10.5 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #5,166 | 9.4 |
| 2014 | 20 | #4,771 | 10.4 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,814 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,843 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 14 | #6,092 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,224 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 17 | #5,423 | 8.6 |
| 2008 | 14 | #6,250 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 21 | #4,570 | 10.1 |
| 2006 | 14 | #5,942 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,927 | 8.5 |
| 2004 | 23 | #3,937 | 11.6 |
| 2003 | 22 | #3,899 | 11.1 |
| 2002 | 21 | #3,969 | 10.8 |
| 2001 | 16 | #4,779 | 8.2 |
| 2000 | 14 | #5,174 | 7.1 |
| 1999 | 18 | #4,077 | 9.4 |
| 1998 | 19 | #3,773 | 9.9 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,143 | 8.5 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,241 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 12 | #4,952 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 12 | #4,950 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,560 | 5.1 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,615 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kahari a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,067 Americans recorded as Kahari, 10% are girls and 90% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kahari: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kahari, and how old are they?
1,060 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,067 Americans ever recorded as Kahari. The median Kahari alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 467 people named Kahari (66 women and girls, 401 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 522 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 47 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 264 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 744 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Kahari born?
The states with the most babies named Kahari are Illinois, North Carolina and Florida, with 65% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 8 | #973 | 2.6× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,089 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,546 | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,286 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 6 | #2,422 | 0.2× |
Where Kahari is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kahari is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1990 it was given 2.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kahari with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 9,677 babies since 1880, Kahari is the second most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 102 of their 289 babies (35%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kahari
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Kahari and names like it
- Compare Kahari and KhariBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKahari peaked in 2023.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kahari since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Kahari.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kahari alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.