Kamiyah

#985 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kamiyah has been given to 5,374 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #985 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 414 recorded.

Babies named Kamiyah, 2025

1 in 12,900

Kamiyah over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kamiyah: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kamiyah means

Kamiyah is a given name.

The naming story behind Kamiyah

Wikidata records Kamiyah as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q130212786, 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, 5,374 girls were recorded with the name Kamiyah between 1994 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 414 in 2020; its best national rank was #689 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #689 in 2020 to #985 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,271 in 2015 to #985 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 Kamiyah?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 12,900; 257 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 6,250; 0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025: #985; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 8,942 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Kamiyah 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,942 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kamiyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kamiyahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kamiyah was born before 2017 — so the typical Kamiyah is around 8 today.

Median birth year: 2017; About 8 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 43.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 97.5%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5,374; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 43.5% of all recorded uses (2,338).

Is Kamiyah 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: −10; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: −296; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: +286; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.34×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 62.1%; Peak was 2020 (414)
Years since peak: 5; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 14.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #689; 2020

Spellings of Kamiyah

Kamiyah is not the most common spelling — Aaliyah is, with 20.5% against Kamiyah's 1.0%.

Aaliyah20.5%109,971
Aliyah9.1%49,011
Aniyah5.8%31,207
Kamila3.7%20,098
Amiyah3.5%18,643
Maliyah2.9%15,359
Janiyah2.5%13,605
Kaliyah2.4%12,946

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 Kamiyah is used

Across 2016–2025, Kamiyah was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 1,389 girls, against 1 in 4,729 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in 50,000).

272 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Mississippi1 in 1,389
2South Carolina1 in 1,724
3Alabama1 in 2,128
4Georgia1 in 2,439
5Maryland1 in 3,030
6Oklahoma1 in 3,030
7Virginia1 in 3,226
8North Carolina1 in 3,333

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.

Geographically, Kamiyah is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 66% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Kamiyah around the world

Where Kamiyah 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
2008–2025
#1,584
in 2025
Canada
2009–2024
#2,463
in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Kamiyah in other languages

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

Kamiya

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

Kamiyah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #985
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 296
Best rank ever: #689; 2020
Peak year: 2020; 414 that year
First recorded: 1994
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 5,374
Count in 2025: 257

Names similar to Kamiyah

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

Kamyah Kamayah Kamaiyah Kamille Kamilah Kameron Kamilla Kamaria Kamari Kameryn Kamora Kambree Kambria Kamiya Samiyah Sariyah Mariyah Malayah Taniyah Kambrie Saniyah Zaniyah Zariyah Jamiyah

Names with a curve like Kamiyah

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

Berkley Marleigh Alianna Harmoni Keily Scout Jenesis Elina Zoya Malayah Promise Azariah

Sibling names for Kamiyah

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

For a sister

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For a brother

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