Kaori
Kaori was given to 98 girls in 2025, #1,970 among girls’ names; 1,482 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,470 Americans named Kaori and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 4 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaori by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kaori mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kaori is “a female given name from Japanese.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kaori?
#1,970 among girls’ names, 2025
Kaori rose from #5,206 in 2015 to #1,970 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 14.6 to 61.0 per million.
106 babies in 2022, the peak
Kaori peaked in 2022, when 106 girls were given it, #1,902 among girls’ names. The 103 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 97% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 98 | #1,970 | 61.0 |
| 2024 | 80 | #2,320 | 49.4 |
| 2023 | 100 | #1,975 | 62.3 |
| 2022 | 106 | #1,902 | 64.6 |
| 2021 | 93 | #2,060 | 56.7 |
| 2020 | 46 | #3,362 | 28.5 |
| 2019 | 49 | #3,251 | 29.2 |
| 2018 | 44 | #3,533 | 25.9 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,885 | 22.6 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,890 | 22.0 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #5,206 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,599 | 17.4 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,209 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,464 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,748 | 17.1 |
| 2010 | 41 | #3,778 | 23.1 |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,867 | 33.2 |
| 2008 | 56 | #3,069 | 29.6 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,454 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 53 | #3,153 | 27.9 |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,526 | 16.2 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,649 | 12.0 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,598 | 15.3 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,121 | 17.3 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,958 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,782 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,870 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,671 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,030 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,151 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,104 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,091 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,760 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,828 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,271 | 9.6 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,157 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,192 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,007 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,023 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,100 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,897 | 4.6 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,542 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,142 | 5.3 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,487 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,023 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,950 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,592 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,120 | 4.1 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,982 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaori a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,482 Americans recorded as Kaori, 95% are girls and 5% boys. In 2025 it went to 98 girls and 5 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kaori: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaori, and how old are they?
1,470 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,482 Americans ever recorded as Kaori. The median Kaori alive today is 11 years old; half are between 4 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 2,252 people named Kaori (2,171 women and girls, 81 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 943 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 33 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 140 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 492 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 801 |
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 Kaori born?
The states with the most babies named Kaori are Georgia, Florida and Texas, with 60% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
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 Kaori 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 203,554 babies since 1880, Kaori is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 103 of their 767 babies (13%), the fourth 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 Kaori
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 Kaori and names like it
- Compare Kaori and KaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKaori peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaori since 1910.
- Japanese namesWiktionary’s origin for Kaori: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Kaori.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kaori alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.