Kemari vs Kemper
American parents have registered 2,122 Kemaris since 1880, against 1,899 Kempers. Kemari is still ahead, with 94 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Kemari Kemper
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 100 years in which either name was published, Kemper for 72 years and Kemari for 28 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.
Side by side
| Kemari | Kemper | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 2,122 | 1,899 |
| Most in one year | 134 | 77 |
| Babies in 2025 | 94 | 35 |
| Estimated living today | 2,100 | 1,600 |
| Median age today | 13 | 15 |
| Peak year | 2009 | 2009 |
| Best rank | 1,594th boys | 1,990th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 1,942nd | 6,143rd |
| First recorded | 1991 | 1912 |
| Girls / boys | 537 / 1,585 | 301 / 1,598 |
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 Kempers alive today are over 15; half the Kemaris are over 13. That is 2 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: Kemari and Kemper.