Kiri
Kiri was given to 20 girls in 2025, #6,022 among girls’ names; 994 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kiri by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kiri?
#6,022 among girls’ names, 2025
Kiri rose from #6,591 in 2015 to #6,022 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 10.6 to 12.4 per million.
60 babies in 1984, the peak
Kiri peaked in 1984, when 60 girls were given it, #1,798 among girls’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #6,022 | 12.4 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,429 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,547 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,747 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,840 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,786 | 10.5 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,945 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,908 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,369 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,161 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,591 | 10.6 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,566 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,367 | 11.4 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,439 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,991 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,514 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,436 | 11.4 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,583 | 9.0 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,451 | 10.9 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,061 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,720 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,318 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,080 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,065 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,283 | 12.2 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,996 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,062 | 9.6 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,795 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,739 | 12.6 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,812 | 12.0 |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,537 | 17.6 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,953 | 15.1 |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,824 | 15.5 |
| 1992 | 38 | #3,061 | 20.6 |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,668 | 15.5 |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,570 | 15.8 |
| 1989 | 35 | #3,071 | 19.0 |
| 1988 | 46 | #2,380 | 25.8 |
| 1987 | 52 | #2,111 | 29.9 |
| 1986 | 40 | #2,485 | 23.3 |
| 1985 | 46 | #2,237 | 26.7 |
| 1984 | 60 | #1,798 | 35.6 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,628 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,821 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,705 | 3.6 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,085 | 3.9 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,775 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,252 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,885 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,950 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,637 | 2.9 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,106 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kiri a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kiri has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 52 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kiri: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kiri, and how old are they?
An estimated 973 Americans named Kiri and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 17 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,021 people named Kiri (961 women and girls, 60 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 886 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 164,250 babies since 1880, Kiri is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 2,884 babies (<1%), the seventh 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 Kiri
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 Kiri and names like it
- Compare Kiri and KiaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKiri peaked in 1984.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kiri since 1910.
- The top names of 1984The year the most babies were named Kiri.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kiri alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.