How popular is the baby name Kiri in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Use the popularity graph and data table below to find out! Plus, see all the blog posts that mention the name Kiri.
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Welcome to Five Name Friday! Here’s today’s baby name request:
I want a girl name that sounds good with Kiri, my stepdaughter’s name. But I want it to have a more classic feel (can’t end with “i”) and also have nickname options.
Can you come up with five great baby name suggestions for this person?
Here are the rules:
Be independent. Decide on your five names before looking at anybody else’s five names.
Be sincere. Would you honestly suggest your five names to someone in real life?
Five names only please! All names beyond the first five in your comment will be deleted.
Avatar is doing very well at the box office right now. And whenever a sci-fi/fantasy film (or book, or TV show) hits big like this, I can’t help but wonder: What baby names could it inspire/popularize?
What about…
Neytiri (pronounced nay-TEE-ree), the pretty Na’vi warrior-princess
Eywa (pronounced AY-wah), the Na’vi deity
Toruk (“last shadow”), the massive flying creature
Toruk Makto (“rider of the last shadow”), any Na’vi who manages to tame/ride a Toruk
Na’vi (“the people,” pronounced nah-vee), the sentient, blue humanoids of Pandora
I wouldn’t be shocked to see any of these pop up in my local birth announcements.
Have you watched the film? If so, which Avatar name (or word) do you think stands the best chance of catching on as a baby name?
Update, 2021: It’s been over a decade since Avatar came out. So…what happened? Neither Eywa nor Toruk ended up in the U.S. baby name data. But the name Neytiridebuted in 2010, and the name Navi saw higher usage post-Avatar. (Though the rise of Navi could be due to the influence of Navy.)
Tsireya from “Avatar: The Way of Water“
Update, Dec. 27, 2022: The long-awaited Avatar sequel — Avatar: The Way of Water — was released earlier this month. It features a slew of new characters, with names like…
Neteyam
Lo’ak
Tuktirey (nickname “Tuk”)
Kiri
Tsireya (nickname “Reya”)
Aonung
Rotxo
Ronal
Tonowari
Payakan
Which of these new Avatar names will turn into baby names, do you think?
Will Kiri and Reya, which are already baby names, see significantly higher usage in 2023?
Finally, could “Avatar” itself ever pop up in the U.S. baby name data?
(At least five U.S. babies have to be given a particular name within a single calendar year for that name to be included in the publicly available dataset.)
Looking for a set of baby names with something in common? If so, here are some 4-letter anagram names for you to check out!
Anagrams are words that contain the same set of letters, but not in the same sequence. For instance, the words “race,” “care,” and “acre” are all anagrams of one another.
Anagram names can be a neat option for siblings — particularly multiples (like twins and triplets). They’re also a clever way to connect a baby name to the name of an older relative (e.g., grandpa Gary, grandson Gray).
Below are hundreds of four-letter names (collected from the SSA’s huge database of U.S. baby names) that happen to be anagrams of other names.
Four-letter anagram names
Adir, Adri, Ardi, Dair, Dari, Diar, Dira, Dria, Riad, Rida
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