Kiari
#1,892 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kiari has been given to 1,294 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #1,892 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 104 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 80% girls, 20% boys all-time.
Babies named Kiari, 2025
1 in 31,900
Kiari 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Kiari over time
In 2025, Kiari went to 78% girls and 22% 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 Kiari?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 31,900
- 104 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 15,500
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,892
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 22,096 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kiari 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 22,096 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kiari. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kiaris were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kiari was born before 2020 — so the typical Kiari is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 51.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 92.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,032
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 51.5% of all recorded uses (531).
Is Kiari 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
- +509
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +674
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +7,929
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 9.45×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (104)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 43.2% average annual change
Spellings of Kiari
Kiari is not the most common spelling — Kara is, with 13.0% against Kiari's 0.13%.
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 Kiari is used — girls
Across 2016–2025, Kiari was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 31,909 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in 12,500
- 2North Carolina1 in 12,500
- 3Alabama1 in 14,286
- 4Florida1 in 20,000
- 5Illinois1 in 25,000
- 6New Jersey1 in 25,000
- 7Tennessee1 in 25,000
- 8Virginia1 in 25,000
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.
Where Kiari is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Kiari was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,392,630 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 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. Kiari has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kiari around the world
Where Kiari 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 & Wales2021–2025#5,927in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Kiari by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Kiari
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kiari
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.