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Kamaria vs Kami

American parents have registered 8,977 Kamis since 1880, against 3,005 Kamarias. But in 2025 it was Kamaria that was commoner, 47 babies to 46.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kamaria against Kami, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kamaria Kami

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, Kami for 58 years and Kamaria for 11 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Kamaria Kami
Total US births 3,0058,977
Most in one year 134307
Babies in 2025 4746
Estimated living today 3,0008,600
Median age today 1840
Peak year 20081980
Best rank 1,664th girls604th girls
Rank in 2025 3,296th3,342nd
First recorded 19731957
Girls / boys 3,005 / 08,925 / 52

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 Kamis alive today are over 40; half the Kamarias are over 18. That is 22 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 Kamaria Kami
France 7050
England and Wales 925

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: Kamaria and Kami.