Meaning not yet researched.
Kami: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 46 in 2025. Its best rank was #551 in 1972.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #551 in 1972; #3,360 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kami in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,360 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1972, at #551.
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Kami: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 46 girls in 2025. Peak: #551 in 1972 · most girls in one year: 307 (1980).
In 2025, 46 US girls were named Kami, making it the 3,360th most common girls’ name of the year, up 564 places from #3,924 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 38 girls named Kami in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #551, reached in 1972. The most girls given the name in a single year was 307, in 1980. For comparison, it was #2,791 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kami in 69 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1957 with 7 babies. In all, 8,977 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 2,438 babies named Kami.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 511 US girls were named Kami; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 58. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,941 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kamila (20,098 babies since 1880), Cami (5,671 babies since 1880), Kamya (3,678 babies since 1880) and Kamiya (3,374 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Camie, Kamie and Kammie are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Seediq. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Camie (1,624), Kamie (1,216), Kammie (903), Cammi (674), Kammy (662), Kammi (631), Camia (602), Kamyia (437), Kaomi (269), Kayomi (233), Camy (182), Kameo (131), 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 Kami in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46 | #3,360 | — | — |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,924 | — | — |
| 2023 | 52 | #3,158 | 6 | #11,528 |
| 2022 | 54 | #3,054 | 10 | #8,040 |
| 2021 | 56 | #2,978 | — | — |
| 2020 | 58 | #2,839 | 6 | #11,301 |
| 2019 | 50 | #3,198 | — | — |
| 2018 | 51 | #3,183 | — | — |
| 2017 | 54 | #3,037 | 5 | #13,246 |
| 2016 | 52 | #3,160 | — | — |
| 2015 | 63 | #2,791 | — | — |
| 2014 | 72 | #2,504 | — | — |
| 2013 | 61 | #2,822 | 5 | #13,100 |
| 2012 | 86 | #2,198 | — | — |
| 2011 | 86 | #2,205 | — | — |
| 2010 | 123 | #1,708 | 5 | #13,283 |
| 2009 | 153 | #1,500 | — | — |
| 2008 | 141 | #1,612 | — | — |
| 2007 | 133 | #1,669 | 5 | #13,395 |
| 2006 | 149 | #1,483 | 5 | #13,022 |
| 2005 | 122 | #1,641 | — | — |
| 2004 | 130 | #1,538 | 5 | #12,298 |
| 2003 | 125 | #1,547 | — | — |
| 2002 | 103 | #1,762 | — | — |
| 2001 | 109 | #1,667 | — | — |
| 2000 | 103 | #1,714 | — | — |
| 1999 | 124 | #1,416 | — | — |
| 1998 | 113 | #1,504 | — | — |
| 1997 | 111 | #1,480 | — | — |
| 1996 | 98 | #1,592 | — | — |
| 1995 | 121 | #1,364 | — | — |
| 1994 | 131 | #1,298 | — | — |
| 1993 | 141 | #1,233 | — | — |
| 1992 | 152 | #1,161 | — | — |
| 1991 | 145 | #1,196 | — | — |
| 1990 | 164 | #1,079 | — | — |
| 1989 | 144 | #1,148 | — | — |
| 1988 | 177 | #951 | — | — |
| 1987 | 160 | #983 | — | — |
| 1986 | 170 | #936 | — | — |
| 1985 | 189 | #854 | — | — |
| 1984 | 181 | #849 | — | — |
| 1983 | 208 | #767 | — | — |
| 1982 | 218 | #759 | — | — |
| 1981 | 273 | #649 | — | — |
| 1980 | 307 | #604 | — | — |
| 1979 | 293 | #607 | — | — |
| 1978 | 245 | #658 | — | — |
| 1977 | 266 | #631 | — | — |
| 1976 | 262 | #605 | — | — |
| 1975 | 284 | #583 | — | — |
| 1974 | 276 | #576 | — | — |
| 1973 | 263 | #600 | — | — |
| 1972 | 302 | #551 | — | — |
| 1971 | 116 | #1,043 | — | — |
| 1970 | 131 | #966 | — | — |
| 1969 | 183 | #748 | — | — |
| 1968 | 115 | #968 | — | — |
| 1967 | 159 | #789 | — | — |
| 1966 | 68 | #1,318 | — | — |
| 1965 | 69 | #1,314 | — | — |
| 1964 | 57 | #1,509 | — | — |
| 1963 | 84 | #1,191 | — | — |
| 1962 | 58 | #1,467 | — | — |
| 1961 | 26 | #2,387 | — | — |
| 1960 | 28 | #2,222 | — | — |
| 1959 | 22 | #2,483 | — | — |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,295 | — | — |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,126 | — | — |
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).