Kairi
Kairi is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 244 births. Its best rank was 689th, in 2019.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2440.02% of girls
- Peak year
- 2019421 births
- Best rank
- #689in 2019
- Since 1980
- 6,542people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,015 girls have been named Kairi in the United States since 1980, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2019, with 421 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2015, and the 2010s alone account for 55%. It has spent 14 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 527 boys have also been given it, 8.1% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2019, its biggest year
Kairi was the 689th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2019 were Olivia, Emma, Ava, Sophia and Isabella. See all of 2019.
Names that rose and fell with Kairi
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Amiyahpeak 2016
- Hayvenpeak 2016
- Ryleipeak 2018
- Ameyapeak 2015
- Saphirapeak 2008
- Brinleepeak 2017
- Gracelynpeak 2018
- Mirabellepeak 2015
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.