Gender-neutral · #2076 in 2025

Kari

Kari: popularity and trends since 1880

Rank
#2076
Born 2025
90
Peak year
1975

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 girls born

Kari per 100,000 girls born, by year. Peak: 1975. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Recent trend

Kari has held steady: its share of girls born has barely moved over the last 10 years. It now stands at 4% of its 1975 peak.

Boy or girl?

Over the last 10 years, 80% of children named Kari were recorded as girls and 20% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.

Related names

More girl names starting with K

Sounds good with

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.