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Kamilah

#2,029 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kamilah has been given to 6,489 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #2,029 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 341 recorded.

Babies named Kamilah, 2025

1 in 35,300

Kamilah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kamilah: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kamilah means

Kamilah is a given name.

The naming story behind Kamilah

Wikidata records Kamilah as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q116366795, 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, 6,489 girls were recorded with the name Kamilah between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 341 in 2019; its best national rank was #806 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #827 in 2020 to #2,029 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,165 in 2015 to #2,029 in 2025.

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 Kamilah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 35,300
94 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 17,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,029
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
24,447 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kamilah 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 24,447 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kamilah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kamilahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kamilah was born before 2012 — so the typical Kamilah is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,489
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.5% of all recorded uses (2,435).

Is Kamilah 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
−583
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,202
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−864
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.43×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
27.6%
Peak was 2019 (341)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#806
2019

Spellings of Kamilah

Kamilah is not the most common spelling — Camila is, with 36.5% against Kamilah's 1.9%.

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 Kamilah is used

Across 2016–2025, Kamilah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 3,333 girls, against 1 in 6,263 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).

230 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 3,333
  2. 2Arizona1 in 3,704
  3. 3Texas1 in 3,704
  4. 4Nevada1 in 3,846
  5. 5Florida1 in 5,556
  6. 6Illinois1 in 5,556
  7. 7Washington1 in 6,250
  8. 8Connecticut1 in 7,692

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.

Kamilah around the world

Where Kamilah 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
    1996–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • France
    2012–2025
    #3,962
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2022
    #2,138
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1990–1990
    #691
    in 1990

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 Kamilah

People whose public names include Kamilah, 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.

Kamilah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,029
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,202
Best rank ever
#806
2019
Peak year
2019
341 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,489
Count in 2025
94

Names similar to Kamilah

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

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Names with a curve like Kamilah

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

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Sibling names for Kamilah

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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