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Kamari vs Kamiri

American parents have registered 18,390 Kamaris since 1880, against 219 Kamiris. Kamari is still ahead, with 1,014 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kamari Kamiri

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 2025, when Kamari had 1,014 and Kamiri had 43.

Side by side

  Kamari Kamiri
Total US births 18,390219
Most in one year 1,22948
Babies in 2025 1,01443
Estimated living today 18,000220
Median age today 92
Peak year 20222023
Best rank 368th boys3,474th boys
Rank in 2025 391st3,848th
First recorded 19782019
Girls / boys 5,845 / 12,54566 / 153

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 Kamaris alive today are over 9; half the Kamiris are over 2. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Kamari Kamiri
England and Wales 5327

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 Kamiri.