Kami

Where Kami comes from

Kami hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1957
    First appearance
    #4,918 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1972
    Kami Garcia born
    American writer
  3. 1972
    Peak, #551
    302 babies named Kami — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1987
    Kami Craig born
    American water polo player
  5. 1989
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,145.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Kami Craig · American water polo player, born 1987
  • Kami Garcia · American writer, born 1972
  • Kami Andrews · American pornographic actress, born 1975
  • Kami Imai · Japanese mangaka and illustrator, born 1980

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.