Khary
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Khary has been given to 933 babies in the U.S. since 1971. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1977, with 58 recorded.
Babies named Khary, 2022
1 in 677,000
Khary 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Khary?
Khary had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2022
- 1 in 677,000
- 5 of 3,385,755 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 349,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2022
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 469,366 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Khary sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Khary. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kharys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Khary was born before 1983 — so the typical Khary is around 42 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 40.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 26.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 928
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 40.2% of all recorded uses (373).
Is Khary 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1977 (58)
- Years since peak
- 48
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.6% average annual change
Spellings of Khary
Khary is not the most common spelling — Gary is, with 57.2% against Khary's 0.06%.
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 Khary is used
Across 1910–2025, Khary was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 272,739 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Michigan1 in 100,000
- 2New York1 in 100,000
- 3California1 in —
- 4Massachusetts1 in —
- 5New Jersey1 in —
- 6Ohio1 in —
- 7Pennsylvania1 in —
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. Khary has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Khary by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Khary
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Khary
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.