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Kamari vs Kameren

American parents have registered 18,390 Kamaris since 1880, against 720 Kamerens. Kamari is still ahead, with 1,014 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kamari Kameren

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

Kamari has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1978 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1991, when Kamari had 9 and Kameren had 6.

Side by side

  Kamari Kameren
Total US births 18,390720
Most in one year 1,22946
Babies in 2025 1,014under 5
Estimated living today 18,000710
Median age today 918
Peak year 20222009
Best rank 368th boys2,663rd boys
Rank in 2025 391stunranked
First recorded 19781991
Girls / boys 5,845 / 12,54583 / 637

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 Kamerens alive today are over 18; half the Kamaris are over 9. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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