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Kamari vs Kammy

American parents have registered 18,390 Kamaris since 1880, against 662 Kammys. Kamari is still ahead, with 1,014 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kamari Kammy

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 69 years in which either name was published, Kamari for 39 years and Kammy for 30 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Kamari Kammy
Total US births 18,390662
Most in one year 1,22942
Babies in 2025 1,014under 5
Estimated living today 18,000620
Median age today 952
Peak year 20221962
Best rank 368th boys1,757th girls
Rank in 2025 391stunranked
First recorded 19781957
Girls / boys 5,845 / 12,545662 / 0

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 Kammys alive today are over 52; half the Kamaris are over 9. That is 43 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 Kammy.