Khary
Khary was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 933 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Khary by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Khary?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,408, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
58 babies in 1977, the peak
Khary peaked in 1977, when 58 boys were given it, #1,149 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #13,408 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,536 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,816 | 5.8 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,414 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,936 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,516 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,509 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,455 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,315 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 6 | #11,582 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | #13,418 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,268 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 14 | #6,287 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 10 | #8,025 | 4.9 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,459 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 8 | #9,186 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,666 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,784 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,415 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 15 | #5,033 | 7.7 |
| 2001 | 15 | #5,024 | 7.7 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,748 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,901 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 10 | #6,088 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 13 | #4,820 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 15 | #4,290 | 7.9 |
| 1995 | 19 | #3,496 | 10.0 |
| 1994 | 19 | #3,527 | 9.8 |
| 1993 | 24 | #2,901 | 12.2 |
| 1992 | 15 | #4,016 | 7.5 |
| 1991 | 18 | #3,396 | 8.9 |
| 1990 | 20 | #3,116 | 9.7 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,603 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 9 | #5,013 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,115 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,113 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 15 | #3,153 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 22 | #2,331 | 12.2 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,156 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 28 | #1,964 | 15.4 |
| 1981 | 20 | #2,452 | 11.2 |
| 1980 | 37 | #1,609 | 20.7 |
| 1979 | 42 | #1,451 | 24.4 |
| 1978 | 42 | #1,447 | 25.6 |
| 1977 | 58 | #1,149 | 35.3 |
| 1976 | 48 | #1,274 | 30.6 |
| 1975 | 55 | #1,141 | 35.2 |
| 1974 | 46 | #1,236 | 29.3 |
| 1973 | 40 | #1,320 | 25.7 |
| 1972 | 32 | #1,525 | 19.7 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,265 | 5.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Khary a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Khary has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 51 years of records.
Girls and boys named Khary: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Khary, and how old are they?
An estimated 878 Americans named Khary and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 27 and 49. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 724 people named Khary (29 women and girls, 695 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 867 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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.
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 Khary born?
The states with the most babies named Khary are New York, Michigan and Pennsylvania, with 84% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 106 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Michigan | 52 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 37 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New Jersey | 11 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Massachusetts | 8 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 7 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Khary is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Khary is most over-represented in New York: since 1971 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 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 Khary 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 Khary?
Khary is a less common spelling of Cary: SSA has recorded 933 Khary and 29,827 Cary since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 39,696 babies since 1880, Khary is the fourth most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 340 babies recorded by SSA was a Khary (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Khary
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 Khary and names like it
- Compare Khary and CaryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKhary peaked in 1977.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Khary since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Khary.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Khary alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.