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Kemar

#7,005 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Kemar has been given to 606 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #7,005 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 34 recorded.

Babies named Kemar, 2025

1 in 276,000

Kemar over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kemar: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kemar means

Kemar is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Kemar is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 606 boys were recorded with the name Kemar between 1989 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 34 in 2009; its best national rank was #3,300 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,471 in 2020 to #7,005 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,526 in 2015 to #7,005 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kemar?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,005
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kemar sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kemar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kemars were born

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

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
34.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
606
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 34.7% of all recorded uses (210).

Is Kemar 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
+46
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−534
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−479
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.92×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
35.3%
Peak was 2009 (34)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,300
2009

Spellings of Kemar

Kemar is not the most common spelling — Omar is, with 29.6% against Kemar's 0.17%.

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 Kemar is used

Across 1910–2025, Kemar was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 146,795 across all states with data. It was least common in Maryland (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3Maryland1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Kemar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kemar around the world

Where Kemar 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
    1997–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025

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

Kemar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,005
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 534
Best rank ever
#3,300
2009
Peak year
2009
34 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
606
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Kemar

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

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Sibling names for Kemar

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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