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Karri

#11,401 in 2025Girls' name

Happy, through Kari

Karri has been given to 4,499 babies in the U.S. since 1953. In 2025 it ranked #11,401 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1976, with 202 recorded.

Babies named Karri, 2025

1 in 414,000

Karri over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Karri: meaning, origin, and history

Happy, through Kari

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Karri means

Karri belongs to the name family reached through Karri → Kari. Its meaning is “happy”.

Origin, language, and formation

Karri is used in Finnish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kari.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Karri is pronounced /ˈkɑrːi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,493 girls were recorded with the name Karri between 1953 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 202 in 1976; its best national rank was #725 in 1976.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,678 in 2020 to #11,401 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,393 in 2015 to #11,401 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Karri between 2025 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2025; its best national rank was #11,331 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Karri?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,401
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Karri sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karri. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Karris were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Karri was born before 1975 — so the typical Karri is around 50 today.

Median birth year
1975
About 50 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
37.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,493
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 37.7% of all recorded uses (1,692).

Is Karri 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
+222
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−723
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+992
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.0%
Peak was 1976 (202)
Years since peak
49
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#725
1976

Spellings of Karri

Karri is not the most common spelling — Karen is, with 42.9% against Karri's 0.19%.

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 Karri is used

Across 1910–2025, Karri was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 53,668 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 20,000
  2. 2Wisconsin1 in 20,000
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 25,000
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 25,000
  5. 5California1 in 33,333
  6. 6Indiana1 in 33,333
  7. 7Ohio1 in 33,333
  8. 8Oregon1 in 33,333

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. Karri has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Karri around the world

Where Karri ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2009–2009
    #5,556
    in 2009
  • Scotland
    1998–1998
    #664
    in 1998
  • South Australia
    1981–2006
    #782
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Karri

People whose public names include Karri, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Karri in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Karri. Linked forms have their own page here.

KariCarry

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Karri by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,401
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 723
Best rank ever
#725
1976
Peak year
1976
202 that year
First recorded
1953
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,493
Count in 2025
8

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,331
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#11,331
2025
Peak year
2025
6 that year
First recorded
2025
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Karri

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

KarieKarisKarmaKarolKarterKarlyKarliKarenaKarmenKarelyKarimeKarleyKarlynKarmynKarsynKarymeKarsonKaranKarrieKarahKaronTorriKarlieKarsen

Names with a curve like Karri

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Karri, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

TangelaTraceeTawnyaAngellaMilissaToyaLatriciaCristiDarcieMelyndaShonnaShona

Sibling names for Karri

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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