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Kamari vs Kamea

American parents have registered 18,390 Kamaris since 1880, against 1,086 Kameas. Kamari is still ahead, with 1,014 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kamari against Kamea, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kamari Kamea

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 44 years in which either name was published, Kamari for 43 years and Kamea for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Kamari Kamea
Total US births 18,3901,086
Most in one year 1,22967
Babies in 2025 1,01412
Estimated living today 18,0001,100
Median age today 915
Peak year 20222010
Best rank 368th boys2,670th girls
Rank in 2025 391st8,362nd
First recorded 19781982
Girls / boys 5,845 / 12,5451,076 / 10

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Kameas alive today are over 15; half the Kamaris are over 9. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Kamari Kamea
England and Wales 5323

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kamari and Kamea.