Kahari
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kahari is a name 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.
- 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)
- Sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.6K (inferred from the name graph)
733 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kähäri in FI Finland, SE Sweden and Kähari in EE Estonia.
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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kahari 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.
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 226 | #6,774 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 91 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 14 | #31,676 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 9 | #128,957 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #224,046 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #193,690 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #341,561 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kahari mean, and where does it come from?
- From the byname/nickname kaharipää; therefore a variant of Kahri. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Kahari have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 733 people named Kahari, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kähäri.
- Where is Kahari most common?
- Kahari is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kahari?
- In Finland, the national register counted 733 people named Kahari, about 1 in 7.6 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kahariThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Kahari”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.