Meaning not yet researched.
Kamilah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 94 in 2025. Its best rank was #806 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #806 in 2019; #2,029 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kamilah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,029 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #806.
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Kamilah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 94 girls in 2025. Peak: #806 in 2019 · most girls in one year: 341 (2019).
In 2025, 94 US girls were named Kamilah, making it the 2,029th most common girls’ name of the year, down 583 places from #1,446 in 2024. That is 58 fewer than the 152 girls named Kamilah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #806, reached in 2019. That year also had the most girls given the name: 341. For comparison, it was #1,165 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kamilah in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 20 babies. In all, 6,489 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,435 babies named Kamilah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,453 US girls were named Kamilah; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 341. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,099 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kamilah ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #1,380 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Camila (123,976 babies since 1880), Kamila (20,098 babies since 1880), Kamilla (3,203 babies since 1880) and Kamyla (998 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kameelah 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kameelah (462).
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 Kamilah 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 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 18 | #1,380 | #747 |
| Florida | 8 | #1,613 | #1,231 |
| California | 13 | #1,698 | #648 |
| New York | 6 | #1,944 | #1,434 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 94 | #2,029 | — | — |
| 2024 | 152 | #1,446 | — | — |
| 2023 | 209 | #1,161 | — | — |
| 2022 | 268 | #988 | — | — |
| 2021 | 264 | #984 | — | — |
| 2020 | 330 | #827 | — | — |
| 2019 | 341 | #806 | — | — |
| 2018 | 335 | #812 | — | — |
| 2017 | 237 | #1,074 | — | — |
| 2016 | 223 | #1,138 | — | — |
| 2015 | 217 | #1,165 | — | — |
| 2014 | 229 | #1,111 | — | — |
| 2013 | 214 | #1,131 | — | — |
| 2012 | 225 | #1,101 | — | — |
| 2011 | 214 | #1,146 | — | — |
| 2010 | 200 | #1,209 | — | — |
| 2009 | 191 | #1,277 | — | — |
| 2008 | 147 | #1,566 | — | — |
| 2007 | 119 | #1,797 | — | — |
| 2006 | 105 | #1,927 | — | — |
| 2005 | 101 | #1,917 | — | — |
| 2004 | 60 | #2,726 | — | — |
| 2003 | 60 | #2,653 | — | — |
| 2002 | 45 | #3,173 | — | — |
| 2001 | 52 | #2,827 | — | — |
| 2000 | 46 | #3,044 | — | — |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,600 | — | — |
| 1998 | 37 | #3,325 | — | — |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,795 | — | — |
| 1996 | 34 | #3,388 | — | — |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,049 | — | — |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,907 | — | — |
| 1993 | 59 | #2,227 | — | — |
| 1992 | 62 | #2,166 | — | — |
| 1991 | 59 | #2,225 | — | — |
| 1990 | 78 | #1,832 | — | — |
| 1989 | 55 | #2,205 | — | — |
| 1988 | 55 | #2,109 | — | — |
| 1987 | 53 | #2,079 | — | — |
| 1986 | 50 | #2,134 | — | — |
| 1985 | 61 | #1,844 | — | — |
| 1984 | 61 | #1,783 | — | — |
| 1983 | 85 | #1,395 | — | — |
| 1982 | 96 | #1,313 | — | — |
| 1981 | 76 | #1,564 | — | — |
| 1980 | 86 | #1,426 | — | — |
| 1979 | 107 | #1,216 | — | — |
| 1978 | 122 | #1,080 | — | — |
| 1977 | 172 | #856 | — | — |
| 1976 | 79 | #1,361 | — | — |
| 1975 | 54 | #1,740 | — | — |
| 1974 | 48 | #1,831 | — | — |
| 1973 | 37 | #2,149 | — | — |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,219 | — | — |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,307 | — | — |
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).