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Kemani vs Kemarion

American parents have registered 1,202 Kemanis since 1880, against 936 Kemarions. Kemani is still ahead, with 53 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kemani against Kemarion, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kemani Kemarion

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 32 years in which either name was published, Kemani for 25 years and Kemarion for 7 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Kemani Kemarion
Total US births 1,202936
Most in one year 6790
Babies in 2025 5319
Estimated living today 1,200930
Median age today 1314
Peak year 20112008
Best rank 3,407th girls1,692nd boys
Rank in 2025 4,460th5,045th
First recorded 19942002
Girls / boys 683 / 5190 / 936

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.

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