Meaning not yet researched.
Kamaya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 62 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,920 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,920 in 2008; #2,763 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kamaya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,763 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #1,920.
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Kamaya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 62 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,920 in 2008 · most girls in one year: 110 (2008).
In 2025, 62 US girls were named Kamaya, making it the 2,763rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 56 places from #2,707 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 64 girls named Kamaya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,920, reached in 2008. That year also had the most girls given the name: 110. For comparison, it was #3,235 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kamaya in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1987 with 5 babies. In all, 1,913 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 703 babies named Kamaya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 714 US girls were named Kamaya; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 88. In 2025 that was about 1 in 25,924 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kamaya ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #1,266 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Kamau, Kama and Kamaiyah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kamau (931), Kama (710), Kamaiyah (409), Camaya (337), Kamayah (270), Kamaiya (245), Kamai (132), Camay (72), Kamahao (65), Kamaia (56), Kamayia (22), Kamaiah (20), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Kamaya in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,266 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,280 | — |
| California | 8 | #2,386 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 62 | #2,763 | — | — |
| 2024 | 64 | #2,707 | — | — |
| 2023 | 66 | #2,657 | — | — |
| 2022 | 88 | #2,164 | — | — |
| 2021 | 74 | #2,428 | — | — |
| 2020 | 71 | #2,456 | — | — |
| 2019 | 71 | #2,493 | — | — |
| 2018 | 72 | #2,469 | — | — |
| 2017 | 65 | #2,680 | — | — |
| 2016 | 81 | #2,333 | — | — |
| 2015 | 51 | #3,235 | — | — |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,868 | — | — |
| 2013 | 64 | #2,713 | — | — |
| 2012 | 85 | #2,219 | — | — |
| 2011 | 72 | #2,523 | — | — |
| 2010 | 82 | #2,322 | — | — |
| 2009 | 92 | #2,175 | — | — |
| 2008 | 110 | #1,920 | — | — |
| 2007 | 88 | #2,236 | — | — |
| 2006 | 100 | #1,995 | — | — |
| 2005 | 79 | #2,290 | — | — |
| 2004 | 50 | #3,100 | — | — |
| 2003 | 42 | #3,441 | — | — |
| 2002 | 41 | #3,361 | — | — |
| 2001 | 43 | #3,223 | — | — |
| 2000 | 34 | #3,773 | — | — |
| 1999 | 30 | #3,922 | — | — |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,585 | — | — |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,051 | — | — |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,468 | — | — |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,773 | — | — |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,429 | — | — |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,341 | — | — |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,818 | — | — |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,147 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).