Karri
Karri is given to both girls and boys: 8 girls and 6 boys were given it in 2025 (#11,401 among girls’ names and #11,331 among boys’, #13,196 among all names counting both); 4,499 Americans have been recorded with it since 1953 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,190 Americans named Karri and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 43 and 57.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karri by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Karri mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Karri is “a male given name”
Variant of Kari.
/ˈkɑrːi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Karri?
#11,401 among girls’ names, 2025
Karri rose from #12,393 in 2015 to #11,401 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 4.5 to 5.0 per million.
202 babies in 1976, the peak
Karri peaked in 1976, when 202 girls were given it, #725 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,401 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,623 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,780 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,783 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,822 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,678 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,407 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,652 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,137 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,250 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,393 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,528 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,553 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,758 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,856 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,440 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,196 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,129 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,590 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,096 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,283 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,769 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,536 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,125 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,231 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,651 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,524 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,579 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 31 | #3,582 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,594 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 26 | #4,058 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 36 | #3,185 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 47 | #2,624 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 59 | #2,220 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 62 | #2,107 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 66 | #1,942 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 61 | #1,972 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 63 | #1,844 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 69 | #1,702 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 97 | #1,352 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 86 | #1,377 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 102 | #1,241 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 136 | #1,060 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 122 | #1,129 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 108 | #1,222 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 125 | #1,095 | 0.08 |
| 1978 | 137 | #996 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 197 | #767 | 0.13 |
| 1976 | 202 | #725 | 0.14 |
| 1975 | 186 | #762 | 0.13 |
| 1974 | 146 | #885 | 0.10 |
| 1973 | 184 | #752 | 0.13 |
| 1972 | 161 | #826 | 0.11 |
| 1971 | 198 | #748 | 0.12 |
| 1970 | 156 | #861 | 0.09 |
| 1969 | 177 | #760 | 0.10 |
| 1968 | 159 | #796 | 0.10 |
| 1967 | 123 | #924 | 0.07 |
| 1966 | 96 | #1,072 | 0.06 |
| 1965 | 85 | #1,161 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 118 | #978 | 0.06 |
| 1963 | 108 | #1,031 | 0.06 |
| 1962 | 100 | #1,084 | 0.05 |
| 1961 | 99 | #1,103 | 0.05 |
| 1960 | 73 | #1,288 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 57 | #1,426 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 47 | #1,564 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 22 | #2,448 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 16 | #2,984 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,502 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,157 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,078 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karri a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karri has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 72 years of records.
Girls and boys named Karri: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karri, and how old are they?
4,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 4,499 Americans ever recorded as Karri. The median Karri alive today is 51 years old; half are between 43 and 57.
The 2020 Census counted 4,052 people named Karri (3,990 women and girls, 62 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,221 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 561 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,270 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,050 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 183 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 128 |
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 Karri born?
The states with the most babies named Karri are California, Michigan and Texas, with 41% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 454 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 301 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Texas | 213 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 203 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Wisconsin | 146 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 145 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Minnesota | 127 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Indiana | 110 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Washington | 89 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Oklahoma | 86 | not ranked | 1.4× |
Where Karri is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Karri is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1953 it was given 1.6 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 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 Karri 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 469,612 babies since 1880, Karri is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 727 babies (1.9%), 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 Karri
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 Karri and names like it
- Compare Karri and CarrieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKarri peaked in 1976.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karri since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Karri: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Karri.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Karri alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.