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Kamiya

#1,950 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kamiya has been given to 3,374 babies in the U.S. since 1984. In 2025 it ranked #1,950 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 186 recorded.

Babies named Kamiya, 2025

1 in 33,500

Kamiya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kamiya: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kamiya means

Kamiya is a given name.

The naming story behind Kamiya

Wikidata records Kamiya as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q130212833, 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, 3,374 girls were recorded with the name Kamiya between 1984 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 186 in 2008; its best national rank was #1,326 in 2008.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,444 in 2020 to #1,950 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,529 in 2015 to #1,950 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 Kamiya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 33,500
99 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 16,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,950
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
23,212 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kamiya 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 23,212 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kamiya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kamiyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kamiya was born before 2013 — so the typical Kamiya is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
43.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,374
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 43.9% of all recorded uses (1,481).

Is Kamiya 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
−89
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−506
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−421
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.67×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
53.2%
Peak was 2008 (186)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
12.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,326
2008

Spellings of Kamiya

Kamiya is not the most common spelling — Camila is, with 15.1% against Kamiya's 0.41%.

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 Kamiya is used

Across 2016–2025, Kamiya was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 2,703 girls, against 1 in 12,274 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

037 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in 2,703
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 3,571
  3. 3Michigan1 in 5,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 5,263
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 6,667
  6. 6Ohio1 in 7,143
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 7,143
  8. 8Florida1 in 10,000

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.

Kamiya around the world

Where Kamiya 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
    2004–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    2022–2024
    #6,294
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2019–2019
    #2,629
    in 2019

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Kamiya in other languages

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

AmiyaKamiaKimiaKimiyaKamiyah

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

Kamiya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,950
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 506
Best rank ever
#1,326
2008
Peak year
2008
186 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,374
Count in 2025
99

Names similar to Kamiya

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

KamaiyaKamoraKamdynKamaraKamariKamayaKamiahKamariyaKamillaKamyaKamariaKamalaKameronKamaniKambriKamyahKamiyahKamylaKamerynKamiraJamiyaZakiyaKamilleZaniya

Names with a curve like Kamiya

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

NariahSahanaAngelyMalakAmariahJazelleRhyanLeilahAilynAlynaLilyannMarlie

Sibling names for Kamiya

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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