How popular is “Kari” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kari” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Kari” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Kari” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Kari” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Kari” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Kari” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kari” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1934	6	0.000002889	6		100%
1936	7	0.000003369	7		100%
1937	5	0.000002347	5		100%
1939	7	0.000003177	7		100%
1940	11	0.000004777	11		100%
1941	9	0.000003694	9		100%
1942	5	0.00000183	5		100%
1943	13	0.000004606	13		100%
1944	10	0.000003717	10		100%
1945	8	0.000003016	8		100%
1946	22	0.000006885	22		100%
1947	23	0.000006385	23		100%
1948	23	0.000006662	23		100%
1949	33	0.00000947	33		100%
1950	30	0.000008563	30		100%
1951	53	0.000014388	53		100%
1952	65	0.000017114	65		100%
1953	98	0.00002543	98		100%
1954	123	0.000030899	123		100%
1955	169	0.000042091	169		100%
1956	243	0.000058937	238	5	96%
1957	341	0.000081149	335	6	96%
1958	489	0.00011829	478	11	96%
1959	660	0.00015873	649	11	97%
1960	754	0.00018152	749	5	99%
1961	893	0.000215581	881	12	97%
1962	970	0.000240374	961	9	98%
1963	1092	0.000275883	1084	8	99%
1964	1101	0.000283208	1092	9	98%
1965	954	0.00026314	948	6	99%
1966	977	0.000281098	971	6	99%
1967	1313	0.000386757	1303	10	98%
1968	1523	0.000450803	1512	11	99%
1969	1479	0.000425572	1471	8	99%
1970	1690	0.000468597	1667	23	97%
1971	1747	0.00050898	1732	15	98%
1972	1568	0.000498887	1561	7	99%
1973	1611	0.000533994	1601	10	99%
1974	1821	0.000599013	1805	16	98%
1975	2243	0.000742864	2221	22	98%
1976	2200	0.000725044	2181	19	98%
1977	2180	0.000686291	2165	15	99%
1978	1987	0.00062605	1969	18	98%
1979	1871	0.000562368	1852	19	98%
1980	1782	0.000517346	1768	14	98%
1981	1966	0.000568311	1954	12	99%
1982	2236	0.000637407	2220	16	99%
1983	2016	0.000582097	1999	17	98%
1984	1828	0.000523969	1816	12	99%
1985	1736	0.000486396	1721	15	98%
1986	1613	0.000453462	1601	12	99%
1987	1689	0.000468436	1670	19	98%
1988	1508	0.000408114	1496	12	98%
1989	1308	0.000340231	1299	9	99%
1990	1117	0.000282608	1107	10	98%
1991	985	0.000252871	974	11	98%
1992	834	0.000217116	823	11	97%
1993	721	0.000191233	708	13	96%
1994	646	0.000173766	633	13	96%
1995	499	0.000136259	489	10	96%
1996	545	0.00014943	540	5	98%
1997	414	0.000114183	409	5	98%
1998	360	0.000097874	349	11	94%
1999	288	0.000077967	283	5	97%
2000	299	0.000079103	293	6	96%
2001	259	0.000069189	253	6	95%
2002	237	0.000063398	227	10	92%
2003	154	0.000040502	146	8	90%
2004	149	0.000038996	143	6	92%
2005	165	0.000042915	159	6	93%
2006	171	0.000043223	165	6	93%
2007	159	0.000039773	150	9	89%
2008	142	0.000036126	135	7	90%
2009	136	0.0000356	129	7	90%
2010	119	0.000032199	114	5	92%
2011	103	0.000028159	89	14	73%
2012	122	0.000033357	112	10	84%
2013	113	0.000030996	113		100%
2014	116	0.000031297	111	5	91%
2015	124	0.000033505	114	10	84%
2016	114	0.000031074	101	13	77%
2017	154	0.000043063	132	22	71%
2018	165	0.00004693	139	26	68%
2019	167	0.000048114	141	26	69%
2020	178	0.000053284	145	33	63%
2021	179	0.000052834	136	43	52%
2022	161	0.000047589	130	31	61%
2023	157	0.000047415	116	41	48%
2024	154	0.000046267	109	45	42%

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