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Kami

#3,359 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kami has been given to 8,977 babies in the U.S. since 1957. In 2025 it ranked #3,359 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1980, with 307 recorded.

Babies named Kami, 2025

1 in 72,100

Kami over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kami: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kami means

Kami is a given name.

The naming story behind Kami

Wikidata records Kami as a unisex given name. The entity identifier is Q21019712, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,925 girls were recorded with the name Kami between 1957 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 307 in 1980; its best national rank was #551 in 1972.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,839 in 2020 to #3,359 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,791 in 2015 to #3,359 in 2025.

In the United States, 52 boys were recorded with the name Kami between 2004 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2022; its best national rank was #8,035 in 2022.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Kami?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 72,100
46 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 34,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,359
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
49,955 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kami sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 49,955 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kami. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kamis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kami was born before 1984 — so the typical Kami is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
27.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
24.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
8,925
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 27.3% of all recorded uses (2,438).

Is Kami rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+565
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−520
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−568
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.73×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
15.0%
Peak was 1980 (307)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#551
1972

Spellings of Kami

Kami is not the most common spelling — Amy is, with 24.3% against Kami's 0.31%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Kami is used

Across 1910–2025, Kami was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 2,083 girls, against 1 in 28,604 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

048 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 2,083
  2. 2Idaho1 in 5,000
  3. 3Washington1 in 10,000
  4. 4Oregon1 in 12,500
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 14,286
  6. 6Arizona1 in 16,667
  7. 7Indiana1 in 16,667
  8. 8Montana1 in 16,667

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Kami has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kami around the world

Where Kami ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2010–2023
    #4,710
    in 2023
  • France
    2010–2024
    #6,596
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1994–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1974–1982
    #670
    in 1982

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Kami

People whose public names include Kami, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Kami in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Kami. Linked forms have their own page here.

KamiaKamila

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Kami by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,359
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 520
Best rank ever
#551
1972
Peak year
1980
307 that year
First recorded
1957
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,925
Count in 2025
46

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,035
2022
Peak year
2022
10 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
52
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kami

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

KamyaCamiKamariJamiAmiKamoraKamilaKamiaKamiyaKamrynKamilahKamriTamiKamilleKamieKamiyahKameaKamdynKamryKameronKamaraKamayaSamiKamiah

Names with a curve like Kami

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kami, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ChristalDemetriaNicolleMaricelaHolliCatrinaAndriaCoriLissetteShaniAdriaJenni

Sibling names for Kami

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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