Kairi

Where Kairi comes from

Kairi hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1980
    First appearance
    #10,392 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1988
    Kairi Sane born
    Japanese professional wrestler and actress
  3. 1997
    Kairi Harayama born
    Japanese association football player
  4. 2003
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  5. 2019
    Peak, #689
    421 babies named Kairi — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Kairi Sane · Japanese professional wrestler and actress, born 1988
  • Kairi Harayama · Japanese association football player, born 1997
  • Kairi Himanen · Estonian footballer, born 1992
  • Kairi Look · Estonian translator and children's writer, born 1983
  • Kairi Shimada · baseball player, born 1996

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.