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Kiri

#6,022 in 2025Girls' name

Skin of a tree or fruit

Kiri has been given to 994 babies in the U.S. since 1963. In 2025 it ranked #6,022 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1984, with 60 recorded.

Babies named Kiri, 2025

1 in 166,000

Kiri over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kiri: meaning, origin, and history

Skin of a tree or fruit

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kiri means

Kiri means “skin of a tree or fruit”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 989 girls were recorded with the name Kiri between 1963 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 60 in 1984; its best national rank was #1,798 in 1984.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,786 in 2020 to #6,022 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,591 in 2015 to #6,022 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Kiri between 2023 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2023; its best national rank was #13,294 in 2023.

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 Kiri?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 80,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,022
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kiri 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kiri. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kiris were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kiri was born before 1994 — so the typical Kiri is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
30.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
37.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
989
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 30.8% of all recorded uses (305).

Is Kiri 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
+1,407
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+764
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+569
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.05×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
33.3%
Peak was 1984 (60)
Years since peak
41
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,798
1984

Spellings of Kiri

Kiri is not the most common spelling — Lori is, with 21.4% against Kiri'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 Kiri is used

Across 1910–2025, Kiri was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 601,484 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Kiri has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kiri around the world

Where Kiri 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
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1986–1989
    #506
    in 1989
  • Ireland
    1989–1989
    #503
    in 1989
  • Canada
    1993–2006
    #2,587
    in 2006
  • South Australia
    1965–2011
    #840
    in 2011

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

Kiri by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,022
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 764
Best rank ever
#1,798
1984
Peak year
1984
60 that year
First recorded
1963
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
989
Count in 2025
20

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#13,294
2023
Peak year
2023
5 that year
First recorded
2023
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kiri

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

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Sibling names for Kiri

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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