Kary
Recorded 1917–2023 · United States
Kary was most popular in 1971, when 108 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,821 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,378 people named Kary.
Kary over time
How old is the name Kary?
Kary first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1917, which makes it about 108 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 95 of the 109 years since.
How many people are named Kary?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,378 American births named Kary between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,911 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Kary in 2025?
Kary was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Kary getting more or less popular?
Kary is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 7 births a year across 2021–2025 against 9 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Kary a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Kary is a unisex name — 58.1% of the 3,378 Americans given it were girls and 41.9% were boys. It changed hands: since 1989 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Kary?
Roughly 2,911 Americans named Kary are alive today — 86% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 53 years old, and half are between 41 and 63.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Kary is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org