Kanami

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Japanese origin

Kanami has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 2022. 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 2022, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Kanami, 2023

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kanami: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Japanese origin

Japanese

What Kanami means

Kanami is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Kanami is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Kanami between 2022 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2022; its best national rank was #16,334 in 2023.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kanami?

Kanami had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023: 1 in 663,000; 5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only: 1 in 321,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 459,528 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Kanami 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kanami. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kanamis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kanami was born before 2022 — so the typical Kanami is around 3 today.

Median birth year: 2022; About 3 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 10; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Kanami 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 2022 (5)
Years since peak: 3; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #16,334; 2023

Spellings of Kanami

Kanami is not the most common spelling — Anahi is, with 26.7% against Kanami's 0.01%.

Anahi26.7%19,359
Kalani14.2%10,278
Kami12.3%8,925
Kamari8.1%5,845
Kandi7.7%5,547
Sanai5.8%4,236
Janai4.3%3,099
Anai3.2%2,327

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.

Kanami by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #16,334; 2023
Peak year: 2022; 5 that year
First recorded: 2022
Last recorded: 2023
All-time count: 10
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Kanami

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

Kanova Kanak Kanairi Kanary Kanarie Hanami Kanira Kandia Kanisa Kanica Dreami Kanz Kandle Kandys Kanyen Kanila Kanyra Kanaja Kanora Kaname Kanala Myoami Kandria Kanajah

Sibling names for Kanami

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

Ezra Sapphire Scout Amayah Shoshana Nila Everlee Zariyah

For a brother

Loyal Avi Rayden Zeke Gian Rishi Tripp Apollo

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