Keari
Keari is given to both girls and boys: 38 girls and 8 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,867 among girls’ names and #9,320 among boys’, #5,952 among all names counting both); 426 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keari by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keari?
#3,867 among girls’ names, 2025
Keari rose from #15,455 in 2015 to #3,867 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.4 to 23.6 per million.
46 babies in 2025, the peak
Keari peaked in 2025, when 46 babies were given it (38 girls, #3,867 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 36 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38 | #3,867 | 23.6 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,078 | 22.2 |
| 2023 | 37 | #4,015 | 23.1 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,850 | 17.1 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,678 | 17.7 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,236 | 14.8 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,837 | 16.7 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,249 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,077 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,474 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #15,455 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,718 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,571 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,246 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,782 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,828 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,951 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,428 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,148 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,991 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,454 | 3.2 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,903 | 3.9 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,518 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,012 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,035 | 5.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Keari a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 426 Americans recorded as Keari, 94% are girls and 6% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Keari: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keari, and how old are they?
An estimated 423 Americans named Keari and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 13. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 246 people named Keari (203 women and girls, 43 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 214 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 123,012 babies since 1880, Keari is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 46 of their 621 babies (7.4%), the third 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 Keari
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 Keari and names like it
- Compare Keari and KerriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKeari peaked in 2025.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keari since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Keari.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Keari alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.