Kähari

surname · Latin script

Kähari is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the byname/nickname kaharipää; therefore a variant of Kahri.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 7.6K(measured from records)
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 100K
  • SESweden1 in 162K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Finland (measured from records)

733 people

Sources
21 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 7.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kähäri in FI Finland, SE Sweden.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From the byname/nickname kaharipää; therefore a variant of Kahri.

Sources 1

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kähari counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Kähari is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland7331 in 7.6K733Kähäri21
US United States≈68 est.≈1 in 4.9M401—2
SE Sweden631 in 162K63Kähäri7
EE Estonia≈12 est.≈1 in 100K10Kähari4
IN India91 in 147M9—1
PL Poland61 in 6.4M4——

733 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kähari is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English name8 spellings in the group

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Kähäri, Kaehaeri, Kahari

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Kähari
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—10#10,905
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—8#12,496

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Kähari mean, and where does it come from?
From the byname/nickname kaharipää; therefore a variant of Kahri. Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Kähari have the most bearers?
In Finland, the national register counted about 733 people named Kähari, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kähäri.
Where is Kähari most common?
Kähari is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.6 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Kähari?
In Finland, the national register counted 733 people named Kähari, about 1 in 7.6 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kähari”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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