Kary — unisex name

What the Data Says About Kary

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,962 babies named Kary between 1936 and 2023, spanning 88 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kary currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1972, when 76 babies received it in a single year. Kary is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,416 additional births since 1917.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kary performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 571 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Kary shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 143 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Kary in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kary 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 1,962 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.