Kairy
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KY-ree
- Origin
- Japanese
- US rank, 2025
- #5,916 for girls
Kairy is a girls' name of Japanese origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,916th for girls in the US (20 babies).
What does Kairy mean?
Japanese: spelling of Kairi; Japanese name; meaning depends on the kanji used
A Japanese name whose meaning depends on the kanji used; known in the West from Kairi in the Kingdom Hearts video games.
Meaning borrowed from Kairi.
Is Kairy a girl's or a boy's name?
Kairy is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 20 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kairy in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,916among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 20about 1 in 80,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 45% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 20 girls in the US were named Kairy, making it the 5,916th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,541st. It first appears in the records in 1996.
2025 had the most girls named Kairy of any year since it first appeared, in 1996.
Half of all the girls named Kairy in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 351 girls in the US were given Kairy or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #768, up from #5,916 for this spelling alone.
Kairy in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #5,916 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,639 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,164 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,541 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,134 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,120 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,507 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,607 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,105 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,446 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 7 | #13,827 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,626 |
| 2006 | 11 | #9,897 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,123 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,711 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,319 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,562 |
Names like Kairy
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Teagan Keiry Kennedy Brynlee Kinley Kenley Cassidy Braelynn Finley Briar Keely Rynlee
Other spellings of Kairy
Names related to Kairy
More Japanese names
Kobe Kaizen Raiden Ren Akari Kenzo Ronin Kyomi Akira Yuna Emi Kiyomi Miya Kenji Reo Jiraiya
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Kairy: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kairy, updated 20 October 2026.