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Kami vs Kamorah

American parents have registered 8,977 Kamis since 1880, against 517 Kamorahs. Kami is still ahead, with 46 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kami Kamorah

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

Kami has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1957 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Kami had 38 and Kamorah had 29.

Side by side

  Kami Kamorah
Total US births 8,977517
Most in one year 30739
Babies in 2025 4621
Estimated living today 8,600510
Median age today 4010
Peak year 19802011
Best rank 604th girls3,843rd girls
Rank in 2025 3,342nd5,722nd
First recorded 19572005
Girls / boys 8,925 / 52517 / 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 Kamis alive today are over 40; half the Kamorahs are over 10. That is 30 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: Kami and Kamorah.