Khori
Feminine
Khori is given to both — 702 girls and 153 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Khori is Cori with a kh, and the digraph is doing something specific: kh in English signals a foreign word — khan, khaki, Khartoum — so putting it at the front of a familiar name makes the name look imported without changing a single sound.
How old is the name Khori?
Khori first appears in US birth records in 1994 — 31 years ago. The typical Khori is a kid of about 8 — this name's wave is very recent. About 700 people named Khori are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Khori most popular?
Khori peaked in 2017, reaching #2432 nationally. Today it ranks #5238, 2,806 places below that high. See the whole 2017 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Cori to Khori
Our story of Khori
Silent letters are one of the main tools of American respelling, and each has a job. A doubled consonant adds visual weight. A y for an i signals modernity. A terminal h marks a full final vowel. And an h after a k does something none of the others do: it makes an English name look as though it came from somewhere else. Khalil, Khadija, Khan and khaki have made the digraph familiar as a marker of Arabic, Persian and Central Asian words, and once it is familiar it can be borrowed. Khori, Khloe, Khari and Khalia all use it, and none of them is a foreign word. The 2017 peak of Khori sits in a period when the device was at its most common. It is worth being clear about what the h is: a visual choice, not a sound, and not an origin.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source establishes an etymology for this spelling. It sits with Cori, Kori, Corey and Kory, all of which trace to a surname whose own origin is disputed — an Irish Ó Comhraidhe, a Norse Kori, and an English place name are all proposed. Khori adds an h that has no function in English pronunciation. A separate Mongolian and Buryat word khori exists and is not connected to the American name.
How the name formed
- Cori
- Khori
Pronouncing Khori
KOR-ee
Two syllables, stress on the first. The h is entirely silent; the name is said exactly like Corey. Some families say KHOR-ee with a throaty opening, following Arabic, but this is uncommon.
Nicknames for Khori
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1994
- Most girls named
- 201774 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2432reached in 2017
- Change vs 2024
- −11.1%24 in 2025, from 27
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Khori in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Georgia, Texas, Maryland.
Khoris among us
people named Khori are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 66,969 born in 2025 was named Khori
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Khori
- #5238
- Khori on the 2025 chart
- #571
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Khori went to 24 girls in 2025, but Kori, Cori and Cory and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 8 spellings went to 423, which makes it the 571st most-given girls’ name of the year — 4,667 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 3,800 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 66,969 for Khori itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Breyonna test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Khori's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Breyonna climbed just as high around 1994, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Breyonna's path sketches the road Khori is walking now.
Khori sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Khori beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Khori in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It sounds like a name everyone already knows.
- Two syllables and five letters keep it compact.
- The spelling makes it visually distinct at no cost to how it is said.
- Nobody will spell it correctly from hearing it.
- The kh suggests an origin the name does not have.
- Cori, Kori, Corey and Khori are four spellings of one sound.
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Frequently asked
- How many Khoris are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Khori are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Khori?
- Khori is one of 8 recorded spellings. Kori is the more common one — 260 births in 2025 against 24 for Khori.
- How popular is the name Khori in 2025?
- Khori ranks #5238 among US girl names in 2025, with 24 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Khori?
- About 1 in every 66,969 US girls born in 2025 was named Khori — 24 in all.
- Will my child share the name Khori with classmates?
- Khori will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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