Kaoru — boys' name

What the Data Says About Kaoru

The Social Security Administration has registered 168 babies named Kaoru between 1914 and 1999, spanning 86 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kaoru currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1999. The name reached its historical peak in 1921, when 17 babies received it in a single year. Kaoru is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 83 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kaoru performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 101 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Kaoru shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Hawaii, which accounts for 102 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Kaoru in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kaoru 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 168 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.