How rare is the name Karri?

4,052 people in the United States have the first name Karri, about 1 in 74,539. It ranks #4,547 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

KARRI

#4,547

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,052
About
1 in 74,539
This common or more
84.2%
Who bears it

Of the 4,052 people named Karri, 87.7% reported their origin as White, 4% as Black and 3.9% as two or more races. 98.5% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Karri peaked in 1976, when 202 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19532025
Peak year
1976
Births that year
202
In 2025*
14 ▼93%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 4,499 babies have been given the name since 1953. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Karri by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #1,448. The largest share of babies named Karri, 54.2%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1950s#4,454162
1960s#1,6881,138
1970s#1,4481,692
1980s#2,310910
1990s#5,479345
2000s#15,419109
2010s#18,94682
2020s#16,01261
Baby boom 1946–6414.7%
Generation X 1965–8054.2%
Millennials 1981–9624.1%
Generation Z 1997–124.1%
2013 and later2.9%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Karri is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Karri has been most common in Michigan (3.3×), Wisconsin (3.1×), and Minnesota (2.9×), and least common in Pennsylvania (0.29×).

2,352 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Karri

1 other first name also has 4,052 people.

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Karri, most common first.

Also a last name

As a last name, Karri ranks #36,891 of 156,621, with 651 people. See Karri as a last name

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