Karri

Where Karri comes from

Karri 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. 1953
    First appearance
    #3,955 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1966
    Karri Turner born
    American actress
  3. 1976
    Peak, #723
    202 babies named Karri — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1984
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,368.
  5. 1986
    Karri Rämö born
    Finnish ice hockey player
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Karri Rämö · Finnish ice hockey player, born 1986
  • Karri Turner · American actress, born 1966
  • Karri Hietamäki · Finnish cross-country skier, born 1969
  • Karri Wilms · Canadian female curler and coach, born 1969
  • Karri Kivi · Finnish ice hockey player and coach, born 1970

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.