Kairi
Kairi is given to both girls and boys: 239 girls and 42 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,041 among girls’ names and #2,957 among boys’, #1,774 among all names counting both); 6,825 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,770 Americans named Kairi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kairi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kairi?
#1,041 among girls’ names, 2025
Kairi fell from #769 in 2015 to #1,041 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.21 to 0.15 per 1,000.
448 babies in 2019, the peak
Kairi peaked in 2019, when 448 babies were given it (421 girls, #689 among girls’ names). The 281 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 63% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 239 | #1,041 | 0.15 |
| 2024 | 245 | #1,028 | 0.15 |
| 2023 | 259 | #987 | 0.16 |
| 2022 | 291 | #929 | 0.18 |
| 2021 | 320 | #856 | 0.20 |
| 2020 | 330 | #826 | 0.20 |
| 2019 | 421 | #689 | 0.25 |
| 2018 | 402 | #714 | 0.24 |
| 2017 | 352 | #781 | 0.20 |
| 2016 | 347 | #827 | 0.20 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 368 | #769 | 0.21 |
| 2014 | 306 | #889 | 0.17 |
| 2013 | 300 | #862 | 0.17 |
| 2012 | 299 | #885 | 0.17 |
| 2011 | 271 | #950 | 0.15 |
| 2010 | 267 | #960 | 0.15 |
| 2009 | 233 | #1,097 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 241 | #1,084 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 244 | #1,079 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 202 | #1,199 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 104 | #1,865 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 105 | #1,813 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 91 | #1,994 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,627 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,205 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,092 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kairi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,825 Americans recorded as Kairi, 92% are girls and 8% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kairi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kairi, and how old are they?
6,770 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,825 Americans ever recorded as Kairi. The median Kairi alive today is 10 years old; half are between 6 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 4,422 people named Kairi (4,110 women and girls, 312 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,970 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 41 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 37 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,190 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,500 |
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 Kairi born?
The states with the most babies named Kairi are California, New York and Texas, with 43% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 41 | #847 | 0.9× |
| New York | 25 | #813 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 22 | #1,207 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 14 | #1,609 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 10 | #921 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 10 | #942 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 9 | #780 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 9 | #962 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,138 | 0.8× |
| Utah | 7 | #568 | 1.3× |
Where Kairi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kairi is most over-represented in Utah: since 1974 it was given 1.3 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 girls’ 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 Kairi 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 205,538 babies since 1880, Kairi is the fifth most given (3.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 281 of their 664 babies (42%), the 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 Kairi
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 Kairi and names like it
- Compare Kairi and KaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKairi peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kairi since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Kairi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kairi alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.