Kyri
Kyri is given to both girls and boys: 6 girls and 11 boys were given it in 2025 (#14,137 among girls’ names and #7,453 among boys’, #11,616 among all names counting both); 943 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kyri by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kyri?
#14,137 among girls’ names, 2025
Kyri fell from #6,355 in 2015 to #14,137 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.2 to 3.7 per million.
50 babies in 2020, the peak
Kyri peaked in 2020, when 50 babies were given it (16 girls, #7,079 among girls’ names). The 17 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 34% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,137 | 11 | #7,453 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,939 | 14 | #6,344 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,753 | 15 | #6,090 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,978 | 22 | #4,631 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,477 | 23 | #4,441 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,079 | 34 | #3,307 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,302 | 24 | #4,284 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,919 | 20 | #4,851 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,416 | 19 | #5,031 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,389 | 14 | #6,204 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,355 | 19 | #4,980 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,899 | 9 | #8,510 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,893 | 17 | #5,295 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,802 | 12 | #6,860 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,463 | 10 | #7,831 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,258 | 8 | #9,301 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,470 | 16 | #5,716 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,705 | 6 | #11,933 |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,033 | 11 | #7,390 |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,009 | 9 | #8,439 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,820 | 5 | #12,533 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,578 | 7 | #9,512 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,900 | 8 | #8,287 |
| 2002 | under 5 | 9 | #7,383 | |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,759 | 7 | #8,825 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,133 | 7 | #8,731 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,599 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 12 | #5,333 | |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,984 | 9 | #6,394 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,663 | 8 | #6,724 |
| 1994 | under 5 | 10 | #5,708 | |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,662 | 6 | #8,216 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,281 | 12 | #4,724 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,804 | 6 | #7,818 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,732 | 5 | #8,892 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,286 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,091 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,548 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,083 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,059 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,621 | under 5 |
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 Kyri a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 943 Americans recorded as Kyri, 55% are girls and 45% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kyri: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kyri, and how old are they?
An estimated 931 Americans named Kyri and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 705 people named Kyri (452 women and girls, 253 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 762 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% 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 89,322 babies since 1880, Kyri is the seventh most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 1,468 babies (1.2%), the eighth 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 Kyri
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 Kyri and names like it
- Compare Kyri and KiraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKyri peaked in 2020.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kyri since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Kyri.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kyri alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.