Khari
Khari is given to both girls and boys: 54 girls and 113 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,051 among girls’ names and #1,532 among boys’, #2,504 among all names counting both); 6,720 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,610 Americans named Khari and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Khari by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Khari?
#1,532 among boys’ names, 2025
Khari fell from #1,525 in 2015 to #1,532 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 56.3 to 66.2 per million.
554 babies in 2020, the peak
Khari peaked in 2020, when 554 babies were given it (380 boys, #677 among boys’ names). The 167 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 30% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54 | #3,051 | 113 | #1,532 |
| 2024 | 77 | #2,376 | 164 | #1,226 |
| 2023 | 130 | #1,608 | 296 | #829 |
| 2022 | 177 | #1,332 | 315 | #798 |
| 2021 | 156 | #1,402 | 331 | #757 |
| 2020 | 174 | #1,284 | 380 | #677 |
| 2019 | 231 | #1,084 | 293 | #789 |
| 2018 | 180 | #1,276 | 217 | #956 |
| 2017 | 168 | #1,375 | 215 | #966 |
| 2016 | 81 | #2,334 | 169 | #1,144 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41 | #3,735 | 108 | #1,525 |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,146 | 74 | #1,949 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,958 | 39 | #2,925 |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,338 | 50 | #2,505 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,245 | 48 | #2,568 |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,069 | 35 | #3,211 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,673 | 45 | #2,730 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,695 | 51 | #2,491 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,911 | 41 | #2,896 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,684 | 54 | #2,338 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,410 | 47 | #2,449 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,034 | 57 | #2,084 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,256 | 49 | #2,216 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,012 | 64 | #1,798 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,089 | 87 | #1,432 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,648 | 81 | #1,498 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,522 | 106 | #1,203 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,540 | 130 | #1,039 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,510 | 115 | #1,104 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,360 | 96 | #1,188 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,287 | 119 | #1,018 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,179 | 159 | #849 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,256 | 89 | #1,188 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,952 | 67 | #1,383 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,174 | 55 | #1,561 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,109 | 22 | #2,909 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,259 | 17 | #3,380 |
| 1988 | under 5 | 8 | #5,468 | |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,270 | 7 | #5,796 |
| 1986 | under 5 | 7 | #5,671 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 10 | #4,211 | |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,589 | 10 | #4,021 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,318 | 11 | #3,820 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,540 | 15 | #2,966 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,193 | 15 | #3,033 |
| 1979 | under 5 | 15 | #2,961 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 20 | #2,332 | |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,380 | 33 | #1,656 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,003 | 40 | #1,422 |
| 1975 | under 5 | 33 | #1,578 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 27 | #1,767 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 36 | #1,419 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 49 | #1,170 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 32 | #1,543 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Khari a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,720 Americans recorded as Khari, 29% are girls and 71% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Khari: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Khari, and how old are they?
6,610 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 6,720 Americans ever recorded as Khari. The median Khari alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 3,494 people named Khari (981 women and girls, 2,513 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,421 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 285 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 781 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,320 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,220 |
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 Khari born?
The states with the most babies named Khari are Texas, Georgia and New York, with 45% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 16 | #1,840 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 15 | #890 | 2.1× |
| New York | 13 | #1,496 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,417 | 0.9× |
| California | 6 | #2,345 | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,055 | 1.0× |
| Maryland | 6 | #762 | 1.5× |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,029 | 1.0× |
| Alabama | 6 | #721 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,398 | 0.7× |
Where Khari is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Khari is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1971 it was given 2.1 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 boys’ 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 Khari with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Khari?
Khari is a less common spelling of Cary: SSA has recorded 6,720 Khari and 29,827 Cary since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 39,732 babies since 1880, Khari is the second most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 167 of their 350 babies (48%), the 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 Khari
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 Khari and names like it
- Compare Khari and CaryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKhari peaked in 2020.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Khari since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Khari.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Khari alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.