Cari
#9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to girls 99.1% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1976 · 541 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 12,757since 1941
Cari over time
Rank among girls' names. Cari has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #9,457 | 10 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #5,799 | 21 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | #4,873 | 27 | #8,921 | 8 |
| 2022 | #3,893 | 38 | #8,300 | 9 |
| 2021 | #4,014 | 36 | — | |
| 2020 | #4,453 | 30 | #7,034 | 11 |
| 2019 | #5,612 | 22 | #8,215 | 9 |
| 2018 | #4,889 | 27 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #4,922 | 27 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #5,985 | 21 | — | |
| 2015 | #5,127 | 26 | — | |
| 2014 | #5,993 | 21 | — | |
| 2013 | #4,645 | 30 | — | |
| 2012 | #5,114 | 27 | — | |
| 2011 | #4,681 | 30 | — | |
| 2010 | #6,182 | 21 | — | |
| 2009 | #9,379 | 12 | — | |
| 2008 | #5,574 | 25 | — | |
| 2007 | #6,323 | 21 | — | |
| 2006 | #7,142 | 17 | — | |
| 2005 | #5,600 | 22 | — | |
| 2004 | #5,208 | 24 | — | |
| 2003 | #3,946 | 34 | — | |
| 2002 | #5,444 | 21 | — | |
| 2001 | #3,549 | 37 | — | |
| 2000 | #3,020 | 46 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,527 | 56 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,307 | 61 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,045 | 69 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,577 | 99 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,508 | 104 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,061 | 171 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,078 | 169 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,146 | 154 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,012 | 182 | — | |
| 1990 | #962 | 195 | — | |
| 1989 | #795 | 239 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #685 | 280 | — | |
| 1987 | #676 | 273 | — | |
| 1986 | #702 | 258 | — | |
| 1985 | #660 | 274 | — | |
| 1984 | #633 | 278 | — | |
| 1983 | #597 | 297 | — | |
| 1982 | #508 | 396 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | #447 | 480 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #621 | 293 | — | |
| 1979 | #539 | 348 | #4,842 | 7 |
| 1978 | #469 | 421 | — | |
| 1977 | #439 | 466 | #5,845 | 5 |
| 1976 | #379 | 541 | — | |
| 1975 | #393 | 519 | — | |
| 1974 | #414 | 477 | — | |
| 1973 | #451 | 407 | — | |
| 1972 | #469 | 387 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1971 | #463 | 436 | — | |
| 1970 | #473 | 430 | — | |
| 1969 | #470 | 420 | — | |
| 1968 | #477 | 405 | #4,136 | 5 |
| 1967 | #522 | 326 | #3,966 | 5 |
| 1966 | #592 | 256 | — | |
| 1965 | #653 | 226 | — | |
| 1964 | #628 | 261 | — | |
| 1963 | #649 | 242 | #4,048 | 5 |
| 1962 | #664 | 235 | — | |
| 1961 | #742 | 196 | — | |
| 1960 | #740 | 189 | — | |
| 1959 | #811 | 159 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,007 | 106 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,067 | 95 | #3,993 | 5 |
| 1956 | #1,272 | 67 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,733 | 36 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,027 | 27 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,301 | 21 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,581 | 17 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,810 | 14 | — | |
| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 | — | |
| 1949 | #3,176 | 11 | — | |
| 1948 | #5,243 | 5 | — | |
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| 1941 | #4,420 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Cari! It came in at #4,420, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1941–1948, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Cari
- 3,658 spots since 2024 (#5,799 → #9,457)
- 5,004 spots since 2020 (#4,453 → #9,457)
- 4,330 spots since 2015 (#5,127 → #9,457)
- Biggest jump: 196 spots in 1959 (#1,007 → #811)
- Biggest drop: 167 spots in 1990 (#795 → #962)
- Debuted 1941
- Peaked 1976 at #379 (541 births)
- Births halved by 1986, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 32 yrs · run 1959–1990
- Highest: 1 in 2,708 girls born in 1976 were named Cari (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 160,727 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 34.7% of all girls named Cari (4,432) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 21 | #3,176 (1949) | #4,280 |
| 1950s | 547 | #811 (1959) | #2,091 |
| 1960s | 2,756 | #470 (1969) | #614 |
| 1970s | 4,432 | #379 (1976) | #449 |
| 1980s | 3,068 | #447 (1981) | #632 |
| 1990s | 1,260 | #962 (1990) | #1,522 |
| 2000s | 259 | #3,020 (2000) | #5,519 |
| 2010s | 252 | #4,645 (2013) | #5,315 |
| 2020s | 162 | #3,893 (2022) | #5,415 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Cari in 1957
Top girls' names in 1957
Top boys' names in 1957
More about 1957
girls
2,044,851 girls got a published name in 1957; 1 in 21,525 of them was named Cari, which outranked 84.8% of the 7,015 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,063Marti96
- #1,063Nancie96
- #1,063Wilda96
- #1,067Cari95
- #1,067Estela95
- #1,067Karlene95
- #1,067Matilda95
- #1,072Charisse94
- #1,072Elissa94
- #1,072Elma94
Tied with 4 names at #1,067; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,157,236 boys got a published name in 1957; 1 in 431,447 of them was named Cari, which outranked 12.3% of the 4,552 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 559 names at #3,993; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.