How rare is the name Kamilah?

4,168 people in the United States have the first name Kamilah, about 1 in 72,464. It ranks #4,466 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

KAMILAH

#4,466

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,168
About
1 in 72,464
This common or more
84.1%
Who bears it

Of the 4,168 people named Kamilah, 45.6% reported their origin as Black, 40.6% as Hispanic or Latino and 6.1% as White. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Kamilah peaked in 2019, when 341 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19712025
Peak year
2019
Births that year
341
In 2025*
94 ▼72%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 6,489 babies have been given the name since 1971. 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.

Kamilah by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2010s, when it ranked #1,918. The largest share of babies named Kamilah, 48%, were born in 2013 or later.

1970s#2,522647
1980s#2,798678
1990s#4,339486
2000s#3,516926
2010s#1,9182,435
2020s#2,0981,317
Generation X 1965–8011.3%
Millennials 1981–9614.8%
Generation Z 1997–1225.9%
2013 and later48%

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 Kamilah is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kamilah has been most common in California (3.1×), Arizona (2.9×), and Texas (2.5×), and least common in Pennsylvania (0.33×).

4,213 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.

Exactly as common as Kamilah

1 other first name also has 4,168 people.

#4,466 Maksim · 4,168

Either side of Kamilah

#4,464 Aries · 4,172#4,464 Sneha · 4,172#4,466 Maksim · 4,168#4,468 Jesenia · 4,166

Spelled almost the same

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

#2,115 Kamila · 12,706#4,444 Kamille · 4,198#4,552 Kamil · 4,048#5,927 Kamala · 2,784#6,693 Kamilla · 2,368#12,734 Kamla · 969#13,708 Kamela · 875#18,582 Kamyla · 579

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