Kemari
#1,954 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kemari has been given to 2,122 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #1,954 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 100 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 75% boys, 25% girls all-time.
Babies named Kemari, 2025
1 in 42,000
Kemari over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Kemari over time
In 2025, Kemari went to 16% girls and 84% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Kemari?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 42,000
- 79 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 21,600
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,954
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 29,088 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kemari sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 29,088 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kemari. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kemaris were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kemari was born before 2013 — so the typical Kemari is around 12 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 38.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 96.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,585
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 38.9% of all recorded uses (616).
Is Kemari 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
- +36
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −23
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +493
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.52×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 79.0%
- Peak was 2009 (100)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.4% average annual change
Spellings of Kemari
Kemari is not the most common spelling — Amari is, with 25.1% against Kemari's 1.2%.
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 Kemari is used — boys
Across 2016–2025, Kemari was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 6,250 boys, against 1 in 25,672 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 6,250
- 2Alabama1 in 9,091
- 3North Carolina1 in 16,667
- 4Florida1 in 20,000
- 5Georgia1 in 20,000
- 6Virginia1 in 20,000
- 7Tennessee1 in 33,333
- 8Texas1 in 33,333
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.
Where Kemari is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Kemari was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 403,414 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
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. Kemari has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kemari around the world
Where Kemari 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 & Wales2007–2025#5,137in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Kemari by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Kemari
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kemari
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.