Kahri
Kahri is given to both girls and boys: 5 girls and 5 boys were given it in 2025 (#16,020 among girls’ names and #12,927 among boys’, #16,566 among all names counting both); 142 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kahri by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kahri?
#12,927 among boys’ names, 2025
Kahri entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #12,927 in 2025.
17 babies in 2018, the peak
Kahri peaked in 2018, when 17 babies were given it (8 boys, #9,208 among boys’ names). The 10 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 59% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,020 | 5 | #12,927 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,754 | 5 | #13,226 |
| 2021 | under 5 | 7 | #10,238 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 10 | #7,785 | |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,694 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,965 | 8 | #9,208 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,067 | 5 | #13,223 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,285 | 7 | #10,195 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,133 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,745 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 5 | #16,702 | 7 | #8,914 |
| 2000 | under 5 | 5 | #11,280 | |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,815 | 5 | #10,016 |
| 1994 | under 5 | 7 | #7,346 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 6 | #7,617 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 5 | #8,539 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Kahri a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 142 Americans recorded as Kahri, 42% are girls and 58% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kahri: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kahri, and how old are they?
An estimated 140 Americans named Kahri and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 6 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 221 people named Kahri (105 women and girls, 116 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 105 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Kahri?
Kahri is a less common spelling of Cary: SSA has recorded 142 Kahri and 29,827 Cary since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 50,341 babies since 1880, Kahri is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 1,930 babies (<1%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Kahri
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 Kahri and names like it
- Compare Kahri and CaryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKahri peaked in 2018.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Kahri.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kahri alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.