Khairi
Khairi was given to 10 boys in 2025, #7,968 among boys’ names; 526 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Khairi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Khairi?
#7,968 among boys’ names, 2025
Khairi fell from #5,180 in 2015 to #7,968 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.4 to 5.9 per million.
34 babies in 2011, the peak
Khairi peaked in 2011, when 34 boys were given it, #3,277 among boys’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,968 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,454 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,277 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 5 | #13,399 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 17 | #5,456 | 9.7 |
| 2020 | 22 | #4,491 | 12.7 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,613 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 22 | #4,542 | 12.1 |
| 2017 | 23 | #4,399 | 12.4 |
| 2016 | 20 | #4,868 | 10.5 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #5,180 | 9.4 |
| 2014 | 20 | #4,779 | 10.4 |
| 2013 | 25 | #4,014 | 13.2 |
| 2012 | 27 | #3,841 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 34 | #3,277 | 17.9 |
| 2010 | 18 | #5,149 | 9.4 |
| 2009 | 22 | #4,512 | 11.1 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,883 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,598 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 19 | #4,781 | 9.2 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,744 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 15 | #5,380 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 12 | #6,073 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 8 | #8,086 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 15 | #5,023 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,834 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,663 | 5.8 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,382 | 4.8 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,760 | 6.9 |
| 1995 | 12 | #4,968 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 19 | #3,526 | 9.8 |
| 1993 | 9 | #6,000 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,453 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,748 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,658 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Khairi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 526 Americans recorded as Khairi, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 10 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Khairi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Khairi, and how old are they?
An estimated 518 Americans named Khairi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 424 people named Khairi (27 women and girls, 397 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 453 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
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 21,520 babies since 1880, Khairi is the fifth most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 1,953 babies (<1%), 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 Khairi
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 Khairi and names like it
- Compare Khairi and KairoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKhairi peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Khairi since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Khairi.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Khairi alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.