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Kami vs Kamrie

American parents have registered 8,977 Kamis since 1880, against 610 Kamries. Kami is still ahead, with 46 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kami Kamrie

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 2016, when Kami had 52 and Kamrie had 27.

Side by side

  Kami Kamrie
Total US births 8,977610
Most in one year 30727
Babies in 2025 466
Estimated living today 8,600600
Median age today 4017
Peak year 19802016
Best rank 604th girls4,990th girls
Rank in 2025 3,342nd13,208th
First recorded 19571989
Girls / boys 8,925 / 52610 / 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 Kamries are over 17. That is 23 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 Kamrie.