girls:
12.7k births since 1941
#1387 (76th percentile)
boys:
102 births since 1957
#4484 (2nd percentile)
overall:
12.8k births since 1941
#2327 (70th percentile)
The name Cari is the #2,327 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 12,828 recorded births since 1941. This represents the 69.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 69.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,387 (75.7% percentile) for all time with 12,726 births since 1941. For boys, it ranks #4,484 (2.2% percentile) for all time with 102 births since 1957.
Cari first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1941 (1941 for girls and 1957 for boys). Birth data for Cari is available in 77 out of the 83 years between 1941 and 2023 (77 years for girls and 16 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Cari has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.2% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 77.1% of babies named Cari were girls.
For girls, Cari reached its peak popularity in 1976, achieving the 53.5% percentile (ranked #354) with 344 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 344 births per million (ranked 53.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Cari ranks #925 for girls (2.3% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 4.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Cari reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #895) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Cari ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 73.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cari".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Cari. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 53.1% confident that Cari is pronounced as KAH-ree, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KEH-ree, at 46.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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