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Kami vs Kamrin

American parents have registered 8,977 Kamis since 1880, against 1,681 Kamrins. Kami is still ahead, with 46 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kami Kamrin

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 68 years and Kamrin for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Kami Kamrin
Total US births 8,9771,681
Most in one year 307100
Babies in 2025 4612
Estimated living today 8,6001,700
Median age today 4018
Peak year 19802006
Best rank 604th girls1,919th boys
Rank in 2025 3,342nd6,803rd
First recorded 19571985
Girls / boys 8,925 / 52450 / 1,231

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 Kamrins 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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kami and Kamrin.