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Kamila vs Kammie

American parents have registered 20,098 Kamilas since 1880, against 903 Kammies. Kamila is still ahead, with 851 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kamila against Kammie, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kamila Kammie

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 67 years in which either name was published, Kamila for 43 years and Kammie for 24 years. The lead changed hands 13 times.

11 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Kamila Kammie
Total US births 20,098903
Most in one year 1,38327
Babies in 2025 8516
Estimated living today 20,000870
Median age today 837
Peak year 20221991
Best rank 213th girls3,817th girls
Rank in 2025 355th13,208th
First recorded 19631958
Girls / boys 20,098 / 0903 / 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 Kammies alive today are over 37; half the Kamilas are over 8. That is 29 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: Kamila and Kammie.