Kairi
#1,040 for girls in 2025, 239 births · #2,941 for boys in 2025, 42 births
Given to girls 91.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2019 · 421 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,256since 1980
Kairi over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,040 | 239 | #2,941 | 42 |
| 2024 | #1,027 | 245 | #3,001 | 41 |
| 2023 | #987 | 259 | #2,895 | 43 |
| 2022 | #927 | 291 | #2,793 | 46 |
| 2021 | #855 | 320 | #4,936 | 19 |
| 2020 | #825 | 330 | #3,274 | 34 |
| 2019 | #689 | 421 | #3,899 | 27 |
| 2018 | #713 | 402 | #3,793 | 28 |
| 2017 | #779 | 352 | #5,297 | 17 |
| 2016 | #827 | 347 | #5,789 | 15 |
| 2015 | #769 | 368 | #5,289 | 17 |
| 2014 | #887 | 306 | #6,632 | 12 |
| 2013 | #860 | 300 | #7,026 | 11 |
| 2012 | #885 | 299 | #6,306 | 13 |
| 2011 | #949 | 271 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2010 | #960 | 267 | #9,693 | 7 |
| 2009 | #1,091 | 233 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #1,084 | 241 | #9,871 | 7 |
| 2007 | #1,075 | 244 | #7,590 | 10 |
| 2006 | #1,197 | 202 | #6,460 | 12 |
| 2005 | #1,855 | 104 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,811 | 105 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | #1,985 | 91 | #6,258 | 11 |
| 2002 | #10,246 | 9 | #6,088 | 11 |
| 2001 | — | #6,445 | 10 | |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 | #7,416 | 8 |
| 1999 | — | #6,530 | 9 | |
| 1998 | — | #6,314 | 9 | |
| 1997 | — | #7,281 | 7 | |
| 1996 | — | #7,136 | 7 | |
| 1995 | — | #5,501 | 10 | |
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| 1992 | — | #8,435 | 5 | |
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| 1990 | — | #8,117 | 5 | |
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| 1982 | — | #5,003 | 7 | |
| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | #4,940 | 7 |
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| 1977 | — | #5,123 | 6 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,471 | 10 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,078 | 12 | |
| 1974 | — | #5,227 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kairi! It came in at #10,392, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1980–2001, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kairi is popular in 2022
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Massachusetts#596 · 1 in 3,065
- Minnesota#609 · 1 in 2,734
- Arizona#630 · 1 in 2,825
- Alabama#663 · 1 in 2,742
- Utah#683 · 1 in 3,225
Best ever in a state: #111 in Hawaii, 2010.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Massachusetts | #596 | 8 | 1 in 3,065 |
| Minnesota | #609 | 8 | 1 in 2,734 |
| Arizona | #630 | 10 | 1 in 2,825 |
| Alabama | #663 | 7 | 1 in 2,742 |
| Utah | #683 | 5 | 1 in 3,225 |
| Indiana | #752 | 8 | 1 in 3,516 |
| Colorado | #765 | 6 | 1 in 3,636 |
| Ohio | #780 | 12 | 1 in 3,969 |
| California | #807 | 40 | 1 in 4,344 |
| Missouri | #817 | 6 | 1 in 4,036 |
| Pennsylvania | #844 | 11 | 1 in 4,362 |
| Louisiana | #845 | 5 | 1 in 3,591 |
| Virginia | #853 | 8 | 1 in 4,359 |
| Tennessee | #910 | 7 | 1 in 4,508 |
| Georgia | #916 | 10 | 1 in 4,580 |
| Texas | #933 | 32 | 1 in 5,087 |
| Maryland | #947 | 5 | 1 in 4,429 |
| New York | #984 | 15 | 1 in 5,338 |
| Michigan | #1,067 | 6 | 1 in 6,175 |
| Florida | #1,115 | 13 | 1 in 6,626 |
| North Carolina | #1,144 | 7 | 1 in 6,497 |
| Illinois | #1,464 | 5 | 1 in 9,340 |
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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 Kairi
- 13 spots since 2024 (#1,027 → #1,040)
- 215 spots since 2020 (#825 → #1,040)
- 271 spots since 2015 (#769 → #1,040)
- Biggest jump: 131 spots in 2010 (#1,091 → #960)
- Biggest drop: 136 spots in 2020 (#689 → #825)
- Debuted 1980
- Peaked 2019 at #689 (421 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 14 yrs · run 2010–2023
- Highest: 1 in 3,987 girls born in 2019 were named Kairi (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 6,725 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 53.3% of all girls named Kairi (3,333) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2002, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #10,392 (1980) | #10,392 |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 1,234 | #1,075 (2007) | #3,931 |
| 2010s | 3,333 | #689 (2019) | #832 |
| 2020s | 1,684 | #825 (2020) | #944 |
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.
Kairi in 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 5,636 of them was named Kairi, which outranked 94.8% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 37,957 of them was named Kairi, which outranked 80.5% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,753Wayland47
- #2,753Yug47
- #2,753Zac47
- #2,793Kairi46
- #2,793Adair46
- #2,793Astro46
- #2,793Ayaansh46
- #2,830Akira45
- #2,830Alen45
- #2,830Alexei45
Tied with 36 names at #2,793; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.