Kanari
#3,423 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kanari has been given to 229 babies in the U.S. since 2008. In 2025 it ranked #3,423 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 45 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 75% girls, 25% boys all-time.
Babies named Kanari, 2025
1 in 73,700
Kanari over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Kanari over time
In 2025, Kanari went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Kanari?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 73,700
- 45 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 35,700
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #3,423
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 51,066 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kanari sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 51,066 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kanari. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kanaris were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kanari was born before 2022 — so the typical Kanari is around 3 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 68.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 171
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 68.4% of all recorded uses (117).
Is Kanari rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +2,619
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +9,361
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (45)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 48.3% average annual change
Spellings of Kanari
Kanari is not the most common spelling — Kari is, with 32.0% against Kanari's 0.09%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Kanari is used
Across 1910–2025, Kanari was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 826,223 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Kanari has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kanari by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Kanari
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kanari
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.