girls:
1.2k births since 1969
#4488 (21st percentile)
boys:
68 births since 2003
#4518 (1st percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1969
#6443 (17th percentile)
The name Kaori is the #6,443 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,299 recorded births since 1969. This represents the 16.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,488 (21.5% percentile) for all time with 1,231 births since 1969. For boys, it ranks #4,518 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 68 births since 2003.
Kaori first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1969 (1969 for girls and 2003 for boys). Birth data for Kaori is available in 47 out of the 55 years between 1969 and 2023 (47 years for girls and 11 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 Kaori has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 94.8% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 94.3% of babies named Kaori were girls.
For girls, Kaori reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 10.6% percentile (ranked #857) with 59 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 59 births per million (ranked 10.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Kaori is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #852 (10.0% percentile) with 57 births per million.
For boys, Kaori reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #897) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Kaori ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 77.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kaori".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Kaori. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 41.2% confident that Kaori is pronounced as kah-AW-ree, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAW-ree, at 17.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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