Khari

Where Khari comes from

Khari 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. 1971
    First appearance
    #1,526 among boys, 32 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1981
    Khari Stephenson born
    Jamaican footballer
  3. 1988
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  4. 1996
    Khari Willis born
    American football player
  5. 2020
    Peak, #677
    380 babies named Khari — more than any year before or since.
  6. 2024
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,224.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Khari Stephenson · Jamaican footballer, born 1981
  • Khari Willis · American football player, born 1996
  • Khari Jones · American football player, born 1971
  • Khari Blasingame · American football players, 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.