Given name & surname
Kahri
“person with curled hair”
Kahri is a surname. It is used in Finnish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Kahri goes back to a word meaning “person with curled hair.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1989. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kahri through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 142
- 82 boys · 60 girls
- Most popular year
- 2018
- 17 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #12,931 for boys · #16,024 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −50%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,931 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. It also appeared in 5 birth records for girls in 2025. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 221 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kahri’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Kahri as a surname has a related form in KAHARI. In Finnish usage, Kahri as a surname has a related form in Kahra.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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