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Kami vs Kamry

American parents have registered 8,977 Kamis since 1880, against 1,013 Kamrys. Kami is still ahead, with 46 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kami Kamry

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 2018, when Kami had 51 and Kamry had 44.

Side by side

  Kami Kamry
Total US births 8,9771,013
Most in one year 30748
Babies in 2025 4627
Estimated living today 8,6001,000
Median age today 4019
Peak year 19801995
Best rank 604th girls2,588th girls
Rank in 2025 3,342nd4,878th
First recorded 19571988
Girls / boys 8,925 / 52990 / 23

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 Kamrys are over 19. That is 21 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 Kamry.