Khari
#3,028 for girls in 2025, 54 births · #1,529 for boys in 2025, 113 births
Given to boys 70.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2020 · 380 births
- Debut · boys
- 32 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,766since 1971
Khari 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 | #3,028 | 54 | #1,529 | 113 |
| 2024 | #2,362 | 77 | #1,224 | 164 |
| 2023 | #1,603 | 130 | #827 | 296 |
| 2022 | #1,325 | 177 | #797 | 315 |
| 2021 | #1,398 | 156 | #757 | 331 |
| 2020 | #1,282 | 174 | #677 | 380 |
| 2019 | #1,083 | 231 | #789 | 293 |
| 2018 | #1,276 | 180 | #954 | 217 |
| 2017 | #1,373 | 168 | #965 | 215 |
| 2016 | #2,321 | 81 | #1,141 | 169 |
| 2015 | #3,705 | 41 | #1,523 | 108 |
| 2014 | #4,103 | 36 | #1,945 | 74 |
| 2013 | #4,887 | 28 | #2,895 | 39 |
| 2012 | #4,296 | 34 | #2,488 | 50 |
| 2011 | #6,148 | 21 | #2,547 | 48 |
| 2010 | #6,904 | 18 | #3,181 | 35 |
| 2009 | #8,454 | 14 | #2,702 | 45 |
| 2008 | #6,559 | 20 | #2,467 | 51 |
| 2007 | #7,733 | 16 | #2,868 | 41 |
| 2006 | #7,482 | 16 | #2,310 | 54 |
| 2005 | #6,245 | 19 | #2,433 | 47 |
| 2004 | #7,828 | 14 | #2,075 | 57 |
| 2003 | #7,998 | 13 | #2,206 | 49 |
| 2002 | #5,897 | 19 | #1,792 | 64 |
| 2001 | #5,009 | 23 | #1,429 | 87 |
| 2000 | #6,487 | 16 | #1,497 | 81 |
| 1999 | #8,223 | 11 | #1,203 | 106 |
| 1998 | #6,360 | 15 | #1,039 | 130 |
| 1997 | #5,417 | 18 | #1,096 | 115 |
| 1996 | #7,130 | 12 | #1,188 | 96 |
| 1995 | #7,041 | 12 | #1,016 | 119 |
| 1994 | #4,115 | 25 | #849 | 159 |
| 1993 | #7,038 | 12 | #1,185 | 89 |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 | #1,382 | 67 |
| 1991 | #6,976 | 12 | #1,557 | 55 |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | #2,865 | 22 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 | #3,325 | 17 |
| 1988 | — | #5,200 | 8 | |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 | #5,459 | 7 |
| 1986 | — | #5,332 | 7 | |
| 1985 | — | #4,052 | 10 | |
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| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | #3,884 | 10 |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | #3,692 | 11 |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 | #2,898 | 15 |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | #2,965 | 15 |
| 1979 | — | #2,897 | 15 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,279 | 20 | |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | #1,645 | 33 |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | #1,411 | 40 |
| 1975 | — | #1,559 | 33 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,747 | 27 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,400 | 36 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,163 | 49 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,526 | 32 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Khari! It came in at #1,526, and was given to 32 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1984, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Khari is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Georgia#435 · 1 in 2,334
- North Carolina#463 · 1 in 2,701
- Alabama#514 · 1 in 2,859
- Missouri#524 · 1 in 3,060
- Mississippi#538 · 1 in 2,667
Best ever in a state: #195 in District of Columbia, 1972.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | #435 | 23 | 1 in 2,334 |
| North Carolina | #463 | 19 | 1 in 2,701 |
| Alabama | #514 | 8 | 1 in 2,859 |
| Missouri | #524 | 10 | 1 in 3,060 |
| Mississippi | #538 | 5 | 1 in 2,667 |
| Virginia | #657 | 9 | 1 in 4,528 |
| Tennessee | #681 | 8 | 1 in 4,534 |
| Florida | #707 | 19 | 1 in 5,088 |
| Ohio | #788 | 10 | 1 in 5,836 |
| Michigan | #808 | 8 | 1 in 5,803 |
| New Jersey | #867 | 6 | 1 in 6,809 |
| New York | #931 | 13 | 1 in 7,504 |
| Texas | #1,043 | 18 | 1 in 9,787 |
| Illinois | #1,180 | 6 | 1 in 10,322 |
| California | #1,434 | 12 | 1 in 17,976 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 Khari
- 305 spots since 2024 (#1,224 → #1,529)
- 852 spots since 2020 (#677 → #1,529)
- 6 spots since 2015 (#1,523 → #1,529)
- Biggest jump: 336 spots in 1994 (#1,185 → #849)
- Biggest drop: 397 spots in 2024 (#827 → #1,224)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2020 at #677 (380 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 2017–2023
- Highest: 1 in 4,542 boys born in 2020 were named Khari (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 15,116 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 33.6% of all boys named Khari (1,599) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1987, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 285 | #1,163 (1972) | #1,736 |
| 1980s | 100 | #2,898 (1981) | #4,090 |
| 1990s | 958 | #849 (1994) | #1,338 |
| 2000s | 576 | #1,429 (2001) | #2,178 |
| 2010s | 1,248 | #789 (2019) | #1,843 |
| 2020s | 1,599 | #677 (2020) | #969 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Khari in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 10,277 of them was named Khari, which outranked 92.6% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,364Lorena169
- #1,364Winifred169
- #1,364Yaritza169
- #1,373Khari168
- #1,373Jazmyn168
- #1,373Katerina168
- #1,373Naima168
- #1,379Aida167
- #1,379Andie167
- #1,379Indigo167
Tied with 5 names at #1,373; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 8,609 of them was named Khari, which outranked 93.2% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).