Kaori
#1,962 for girls in 2025, 98 births · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to girls 95.1% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2022 · 106 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,409since 1969
Kaori over time
Rank among girls' names. Kaori has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,962 | 98 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #2,303 | 80 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,965 | 100 | #10,821 | 6 |
| 2022 | #1,898 | 106 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,057 | 93 | #10,799 | 6 |
| 2020 | #3,338 | 46 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,222 | 49 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,497 | 44 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,848 | 39 | #9,696 | 7 |
| 2016 | #3,849 | 39 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #5,127 | 26 | — | |
| 2014 | #4,544 | 31 | — | |
| 2013 | #5,143 | 26 | — | |
| 2012 | #6,341 | 20 | — | |
| 2011 | #4,681 | 30 | #12,287 | 5 |
| 2010 | #3,745 | 41 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,852 | 61 | #8,310 | 9 |
| 2008 | #3,054 | 56 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #5,377 | 26 | #8,915 | 8 |
| 2006 | #3,136 | 53 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #4,487 | 30 | #9,115 | 7 |
| 2004 | #5,555 | 22 | — | |
| 2003 | #4,536 | 28 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | #4,071 | 31 | — | |
| 2001 | #7,724 | 13 | — | |
| 2000 | #7,580 | 13 | — | |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | — | |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 | — | |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 | — | |
| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 | — | |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 | — | |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 | — | |
| 1993 | #7,498 | 11 | — | |
| 1992 | #6,652 | 13 | — | |
| 1991 | #5,181 | 18 | — | |
| 1990 | #5,060 | 18 | — | |
| 1989 | #6,955 | 11 | — | |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 | — | |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 | — | |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | — | |
| 1985 | #7,563 | 8 | — | |
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| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | — | |
| 1982 | #6,888 | 9 | — | |
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| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 | — | |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | — | |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 | — | |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 | — | |
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| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 | — | |
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| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kaori! It came in at #7,471, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1969–1973, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kaori is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Louisiana#597 · 1 in 2,339
- Georgia#854 · 1 in 4,110
- Pennsylvania#1,392 · 1 in 9,338
- Florida#1,436 · 1 in 9,640
- New York#1,654 · 1 in 11,190
Best ever in a state: #597 in Louisiana, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Louisiana | #597 | 7 | 1 in 2,339 |
| Georgia | #854 | 11 | 1 in 4,110 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,392 | 5 | 1 in 9,338 |
| Florida | #1,436 | 9 | 1 in 9,640 |
| New York | #1,654 | 7 | 1 in 11,190 |
| Texas | #2,386 | 8 | 1 in 20,068 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kaori
- 341 spots since 2024 (#2,303 → #1,962)
- 1,376 spots since 2020 (#3,338 → #1,962)
- 3,165 spots since 2015 (#5,127 → #1,962)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 2022 at #1,898 (106 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 15,473 girls born in 2022 were named Kaori (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 16,401 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 37.1% of all girls named Kaori (523) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #7,471 (1969) | #7,471 |
| 1970s | 30 | #7,680 (1974) | #8,370 |
| 1980s | 59 | #6,788 (1987) | #7,778 |
| 1990s | 114 | #5,060 (1990) | #7,902 |
| 2000s | 333 | #2,852 (2009) | #4,837 |
| 2010s | 345 | #3,222 (2019) | #4,400 |
| 2020s | 523 | #1,898 (2022) | #2,254 |
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.
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