Kamika
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kamika has been given to 438 babies in the U.S. since 1973. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1975, with 41 recorded.
Babies named Kamika, 2017
1 in 715,000
Kamika over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kamika?
Kamika had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2017
- 1 in 715,000
- 5 of 3,577,106 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 345,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2017
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 495,893 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kamika sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kamika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kamikas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kamika was born before 1981 — so the typical Kamika is around 44 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 45.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 6.8%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 438
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 45.2% of all recorded uses (198).
Is Kamika 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1975 (41)
- Years since peak
- 50
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.8% average annual change
Spellings of Kamika
Kamika is not the most common spelling — Camila is, with 21.1% against Kamika's 0.07%.
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 Kamika is used
Across 1910–2025, Kamika was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,863,985 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2New York1 in —
- 3Pennsylvania1 in —
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. Kamika has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kamika around the world
Where Kamika 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.
- Canada2019–2019#3,370in 2019
- South Australia1995–2010#801in 2010
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kamika by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kamika
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kamika
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.