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 1986
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Montana#184 · 1 in 777
- Nebraska#293 · 1 in 1,904
- Iowa#353 · 1 in 2,659
- Tennessee#373 · 1 in 2,755
- Utah#389 · 1 in 2,328
Best ever in a state: #125 in Nevada, 1959.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | #184 | 5 | 1 in 777 |
| Nebraska | #293 | 5 | 1 in 1,904 |
| Iowa | #353 | 6 | 1 in 2,659 |
| Tennessee | #373 | 10 | 1 in 2,755 |
| Utah | #389 | 6 | 1 in 2,328 |
| Missouri | #408 | 10 | 1 in 3,140 |
| Indiana | #440 | 9 | 1 in 3,652 |
| Oklahoma | #445 | 6 | 1 in 3,130 |
| Michigan | #477 | 14 | 1 in 4,038 |
| Alabama | #493 | 6 | 1 in 3,557 |
| Illinois | #494 | 19 | 1 in 3,734 |
| Minnesota | #544 | 5 | 1 in 5,534 |
| Maryland | #567 | 5 | 1 in 4,904 |
| Wisconsin | #575 | 5 | 1 in 5,935 |
| Arizona | #592 | 6 | 1 in 3,904 |
| Florida | #599 | 14 | 1 in 4,745 |
| Ohio | #656 | 10 | 1 in 6,794 |
| New Jersey | #739 | 6 | 1 in 6,999 |
| North Carolina | #753 | 5 | 1 in 7,112 |
| Pennsylvania | #780 | 8 | 1 in 8,591 |
| Georgia | #796 | 5 | 1 in 7,536 |
| California | #895 | 25 | 1 in 8,308 |
| Texas | #1,083 | 12 | 1 in 10,972 |
| New York | #1,161 | 9 | 1 in 12,054 |
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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 1986
Top girls' names in 1986
More about 1986
girls
1,715,547 girls got a published name in 1986; 1 in 6,649 of them was named Cari, which outranked 94.5% of the 12,836 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).