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Khari

#1,532 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Khari has been given to 6,720 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #1,532 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 380 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 71% boys, 29% girls all-time.

Babies named Khari, 2025

1 in 29,300

Khari over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Khari over time

In 2025, Khari went to 32% girls and 68% boys.

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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.

Khari: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Khari means

Khari is a given name.

The naming story behind Khari

Wikidata records Khari as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q95694900, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,766 boys were recorded with the name Khari between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 380 in 2020; its best national rank was #677 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #677 in 2020 to #1,532 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,525 in 2015 to #1,532 in 2025.

In the United States, 1,954 girls were recorded with the name Khari between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 231 in 2019; its best national rank was #1,084 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,284 in 2020 to #3,051 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,735 in 2015 to #3,051 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.

How common is Khari?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 29,300
113 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 15,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,532
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
20,337 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Khari sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 5002%

Put another way: gather 20,337 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Khari. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kharis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Khari was born before 2016 — so the typical Khari is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
33.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,766
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 33.6% of all recorded uses (1,599).

Is Khari 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
−306
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−855
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.05×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
29.7%
Peak was 2020 (380)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#677
2020

Spellings of Khari

Khari is not the most common spelling — Karl is, with 29.1% against Khari's 1.4%.

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 Khari is used — boys

Across 2016–2025, Khari was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 2,174 boys, against 1 in 6,123 across all states with data. It was least common in Arizona (1 in 100,000).

146 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 2,174
  2. 2Georgia1 in 2,273
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 2,778
  4. 4Alabama1 in 2,857
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 3,226
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 3,333
  7. 7Maryland1 in 3,571
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 3,846

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Geographically, Khari is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 76% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Where Khari is used — girls

Across 2016–2025, Khari was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 2,857 girls, against 1 in 9,937 across all states with data. It was least common in Indiana (1 in 50,000).

235 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 2,857
  2. 2Maryland1 in 3,571
  3. 3Georgia1 in 4,348
  4. 4Alabama1 in 6,250
  5. 5Missouri1 in 6,250
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 7,692
  7. 7Mississippi1 in 9,091
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 9,091

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.

Khari around the world

Where Khari 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
    1996–2025
    #1,359
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2020–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #754
    in 2010

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

Notable people named Khari

People whose public names include Khari, 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.

Khari by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,532
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 855
Best rank ever
#677
2020
Peak year
2020
380 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,766
Count in 2025
113

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,051
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,767
Best rank ever
#1,084
2019
Peak year
2019
231 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,954
Count in 2025
54

Names similar to Khari

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

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Names with a curve like Khari

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

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Sibling names for Khari

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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