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Kamya

#3,187 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kamya has been given to 3,678 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #3,187 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 278 recorded.

Babies named Kamya, 2025

1 in 66,300

Kamya over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kamya: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kamya means

Kamya is a given name.

The naming story behind Kamya

Wikidata records Kamya as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q115431385, 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, 3,678 girls were recorded with the name Kamya between 1983 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 278 in 2009; its best national rank was #964 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,637 in 2020 to #3,187 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,288 in 2015 to #3,187 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 Kamya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 66,300
50 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 32,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,187
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
45,959 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kamya 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 45,959 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kamya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kamyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kamya was born before 2009 — so the typical Kamya is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
47.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,678
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 47.7% of all recorded uses (1,753).

Is Kamya 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
+241
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,550
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−899
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.61×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
18.0%
Peak was 2009 (278)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#964
2009

Spellings of Kamya

Kamya is not the most common spelling — Amy is, with 30.5% against Kamya's 0.16%.

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 Kamya is used

Across 2016–2025, Kamya was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 21,177 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in 100,000).

111 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 9,091
  2. 2Georgia1 in 10,000
  3. 3Ohio1 in 12,500
  4. 4South Carolina1 in 12,500
  5. 5Illinois1 in 14,286
  6. 6Alabama1 in 16,667
  7. 7Kentucky1 in 16,667
  8. 8Virginia1 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.

Kamya around the world

Where Kamya 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
    2008–2019
    #5,591
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    2006–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kamya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,187
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,550
Best rank ever
#964
2009
Peak year
2009
278 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,678
Count in 2025
50

Names similar to Kamya

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

KamiaKamiyaKamoraKamriKamieKamariKameaKamdynKamryKamaraKamayaKamiahSamyaTamyaKamiKamillaJamyaKameronKamariaKamalaLamyaKamaniKamiyahKamil

Names with a curve like Kamya

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

ZaniyaMakiyahAniahKelisLaniyaKloeIzabelJamiyahGizelleBrookelynnJaniahAriyana

Sibling names for Kamya

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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