Kemi
#12,545 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kemi has been given to 383 babies in the U.S. since 1961. In 2025 it ranked #12,545 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 17 recorded.
Babies named Kemi, 2025
1 in 474,000
Kemi 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kemi?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 230,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #12,545
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kemi 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kemi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kemis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kemi was born before 1996 — so the typical Kemi is around 29 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 18.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 41.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 383
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 18.5% of all recorded uses (71).
Is Kemi 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
- −2,645
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −927
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,042
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.70×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 41.2%
- Peak was 2022 (17)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 50.8% average annual change
Spellings of Kemi
Kemi is not the most common spelling — Kim is, with 20.7% against Kemi's 0.04%.
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 Kemi is used
Across 1910–2025, Kemi was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 905,058 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 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. Kemi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kemi around the world
Where Kemi 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 & Wales1996–2025#4,867in 2025
- Ireland2003–2023#856in 2023
- France2007–2023#6,770in 2023
- South Australia2008–2008#796in 2008
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Kemi by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kemi
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kemi
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.