How rare is the name Kami?

8,289 people in the United States have the first name Kami, about 1 in 36,438. It ranks #2,797 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

KAMI

#2,797

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,289
About
1 in 36,438
This common or more
80.9%
Who bears it

Of the 8,289 people named Kami, 80.7% reported their origin as White, 5.7% as Black and 5.1% as two or more races. 97.7% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Kami peaked in 1980, when 307 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19572025
Peak year
1980
Births that year
307
In 2025*
46 ▼85%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 8,977 babies have been given the name since 1957. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Kami by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #1,161. The largest share of babies named Kami, 37.2%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1950s#8,51743
1960s#1,979847
1970s#1,1612,438
1980s#1,4262,027
1990s#2,2601,300
2000s#2,7941,283
2010s#4,415713
2020s#5,320326
Baby boom 1946–643.3%
Generation X 1965–8037.2%
Millennials 1981–9629.8%
Generation Z 1997–1221.5%
2013 and later8.2%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Kami is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kami has been most common in Utah (14×), Idaho (5.7×), and Washington (2.9×), and least common in New York (0.28×).

5,336 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Kami

#2,795 Sarina · 8,299#2,796 Mirian · 8,298#2,798 Isabell · 8,283#2,799 Devonte · 8,281

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Kami, most common first.

#3,866 Kam · 5,081#10,520 Kamia · 1,262#11,837 Kamie · 1,068#14,347 Kama · 823#15,037 Kani · 772#18,671 Kammi · 575#29,154 Kamy · 305#33,297 Kaimi · 249

Also a last name

As a last name, Kami ranks #30,311 of 156,621, with 826 people. See Kami as a last name

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