Cari
#9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to girls 99.1% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1976 · 541 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 12,757since 1941
Cari over time
Rank among girls' names. Cari has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #9,457 | 10 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #5,799 | 21 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | #4,873 | 27 | #8,921 | 8 |
| 2022 | #3,893 | 38 | #8,300 | 9 |
| 2021 | #4,014 | 36 | — | |
| 2020 | #4,453 | 30 | #7,034 | 11 |
| 2019 | #5,612 | 22 | #8,215 | 9 |
| 2018 | #4,889 | 27 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #4,922 | 27 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #5,985 | 21 | — | |
| 2015 | #5,127 | 26 | — | |
| 2014 | #5,993 | 21 | — | |
| 2013 | #4,645 | 30 | — | |
| 2012 | #5,114 | 27 | — | |
| 2011 | #4,681 | 30 | — | |
| 2010 | #6,182 | 21 | — | |
| 2009 | #9,379 | 12 | — | |
| 2008 | #5,574 | 25 | — | |
| 2007 | #6,323 | 21 | — | |
| 2006 | #7,142 | 17 | — | |
| 2005 | #5,600 | 22 | — | |
| 2004 | #5,208 | 24 | — | |
| 2003 | #3,946 | 34 | — | |
| 2002 | #5,444 | 21 | — | |
| 2001 | #3,549 | 37 | — | |
| 2000 | #3,020 | 46 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,527 | 56 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,307 | 61 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,045 | 69 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,577 | 99 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,508 | 104 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,061 | 171 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,078 | 169 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,146 | 154 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,012 | 182 | — | |
| 1990 | #962 | 195 | — | |
| 1989 | #795 | 239 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #685 | 280 | — | |
| 1987 | #676 | 273 | — | |
| 1986 | #702 | 258 | — | |
| 1985 | #660 | 274 | — | |
| 1984 | #633 | 278 | — | |
| 1983 | #597 | 297 | — | |
| 1982 | #508 | 396 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | #447 | 480 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #621 | 293 | — | |
| 1979 | #539 | 348 | #4,842 | 7 |
| 1978 | #469 | 421 | — | |
| 1977 | #439 | 466 | #5,845 | 5 |
| 1976 | #379 | 541 | — | |
| 1975 | #393 | 519 | — | |
| 1974 | #414 | 477 | — | |
| 1973 | #451 | 407 | — | |
| 1972 | #469 | 387 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1971 | #463 | 436 | — | |
| 1970 | #473 | 430 | — | |
| 1969 | #470 | 420 | — | |
| 1968 | #477 | 405 | #4,136 | 5 |
| 1967 | #522 | 326 | #3,966 | 5 |
| 1966 | #592 | 256 | — | |
| 1965 | #653 | 226 | — | |
| 1964 | #628 | 261 | — | |
| 1963 | #649 | 242 | #4,048 | 5 |
| 1962 | #664 | 235 | — | |
| 1961 | #742 | 196 | — | |
| 1960 | #740 | 189 | — | |
| 1959 | #811 | 159 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,007 | 106 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,067 | 95 | #3,993 | 5 |
| 1956 | #1,272 | 67 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,733 | 36 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,027 | 27 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,301 | 21 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,581 | 17 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,810 | 14 | — | |
| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 | — | |
| 1949 | #3,176 | 11 | — | |
| 1948 | #5,243 | 5 | — | |
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| 1941 | #4,420 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Cari! It came in at #4,420, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1941–1948, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Cari is popular in 1979
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- North Dakota#191 · 1 in 924
- Utah#242 · 1 in 1,339
- Minnesota#262 · 1 in 1,852
- Indiana#284 · 1 in 1,907
- Iowa#307 · 1 in 2,189
Best ever in a state: #125 in Nevada, 1959.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | #191 | 5 | 1 in 924 |
| Utah | #242 | 12 | 1 in 1,339 |
| Minnesota | #262 | 15 | 1 in 1,852 |
| Indiana | #284 | 19 | 1 in 1,907 |
| Iowa | #307 | 9 | 1 in 2,189 |
| Nebraska | #311 | 5 | 1 in 2,061 |
| Wisconsin | #324 | 12 | 1 in 2,549 |
| Washington | #344 | 12 | 1 in 2,110 |
| Oklahoma | #363 | 8 | 1 in 2,314 |
| Oregon | #390 | 7 | 1 in 2,398 |
| Colorado | #415 | 7 | 1 in 2,665 |
| Texas | #435 | 39 | 1 in 2,849 |
| Maryland | #447 | 6 | 1 in 3,245 |
| Arizona | #453 | 7 | 1 in 2,551 |
| Kentucky | #463 | 6 | 1 in 4,081 |
| Michigan | #476 | 15 | 1 in 3,972 |
| Illinois | #492 | 21 | 1 in 3,557 |
| Tennessee | #505 | 7 | 1 in 4,069 |
| California | #603 | 37 | 1 in 4,414 |
| Ohio | #616 | 11 | 1 in 6,554 |
| Virginia | #649 | 5 | 1 in 5,837 |
| Florida | #667 | 9 | 1 in 5,208 |
| Georgia | #693 | 6 | 1 in 5,602 |
| Pennsylvania | #818 | 7 | 1 in 9,773 |
| New Jersey | #836 | 5 | 1 in 7,438 |
| New York | #914 | 12 | 1 in 8,244 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Cari
- 3,658 spots since 2024 (#5,799 → #9,457)
- 5,004 spots since 2020 (#4,453 → #9,457)
- 4,330 spots since 2015 (#5,127 → #9,457)
- Biggest jump: 196 spots in 1959 (#1,007 → #811)
- Biggest drop: 167 spots in 1990 (#795 → #962)
- Debuted 1941
- Peaked 1976 at #379 (541 births)
- Births halved by 1986, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 32 yrs · run 1959–1990
- Highest: 1 in 2,708 girls born in 1976 were named Cari (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 160,727 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 34.7% of all girls named Cari (4,432) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 21 | #3,176 (1949) | #4,280 |
| 1950s | 547 | #811 (1959) | #2,091 |
| 1960s | 2,756 | #470 (1969) | #614 |
| 1970s | 4,432 | #379 (1976) | #449 |
| 1980s | 3,068 | #447 (1981) | #632 |
| 1990s | 1,260 | #962 (1990) | #1,522 |
| 2000s | 259 | #3,020 (2000) | #5,519 |
| 2010s | 252 | #4,645 (2013) | #5,315 |
| 2020s | 162 | #3,893 (2022) | #5,415 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Cari in 1979
Top girls' names in 1979
Top boys' names in 1979
More about 1979
girls
1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 4,613 of them was named Cari, which outranked 95.5% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 245,934 of them was named Cari, which outranked 31.5% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,403Zavier8
- #4,403Zeferino8
- #4,403Zion8
- #4,842Cari7
- #4,842Abasi7
- #4,842Abdiel7
- #4,842Abed7
- #5,355Aasim6
- #5,355Abdallah6
- #5,355Abdula6
Tied with 512 names at #4,842; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.