Kami

#3,342 for girls in 2025, 46 births · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #10,821
Given to girls 99.4% of the time

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Peak · girls
1972 · 302 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
8,925
since 1957

Kami over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Kami has never cracked the top 500 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201957peak #551, 1972girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#3,34246—
2024#3,89238—
2023#3,14052#10,8216
2022#3,03354#7,76810
2021#2,95856—
2020#2,82358#10,6056
2019#3,17250—
2018#3,15851—
2017#3,01454#12,2465
2016#3,13952—
2015#2,77363—
2014#2,49772—
2013#2,80461#12,1365
2012#2,18986—
2011#2,19086—
2010#1,703123#12,2315
2009#1,492153—
2008#1,605141—
2007#1,666133#12,3675
2006#1,480149#12,0555
2005#1,639122—
2004#1,533130#11,3565
2003#1,542125—
2002#1,750103—
2001#1,660109—
2000#1,705103—
1999#1,416124—
1998#1,501113—
1997#1,475111—
1996#1,58398—
1995#1,355121—
1994#1,293131—
1993#1,228141—
1992#1,156152—
1991#1,195145—
1990#1,077164—
1989#1,145144—
1988#949177—
1987#983160—
1986#933170—
1985#853189—
1984#848181—
1983#766208—
1982#759218—
1981#646273—
1980#604307—
1979#607293—
1978#655245—
1977#630266—
1976#605262—
1975#583284—
1974#574276—
1973#599263—
1972#551302—
1971#1,041116—
1970#966131—
1969#748183—
1968#966115—
1967#788159—
1966#1,31268—
1965#1,30269—
1964#1,49757—
1963#1,18884—
1962#1,45658—
1961#2,35926—
1960#2,19628—
1959#2,45822—
1958#3,23214—
1957#4,9187—
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First appearance
1957

The first year at least five girls were named Kami! It came in at #4,918, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1957, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.

Where Kami is popular in 1957

No state had 5 or more girls named Kami in 1957, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Kami
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 550 spots since 2024 (#3,892 → #3,342)
  • 519 spots since 2020 (#2,823 → #3,342)
  • 569 spots since 2015 (#2,773 → #3,342)
  • Biggest jump: 524 spots in 1967 (#1,312 → #788)
  • Biggest drop: 218 spots in 1970 (#748 → #966)
Rise & fade · girls
15 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1957
  • Peaked 1972 at #551 (302 births)
  • Births halved by 1989, 17 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 21 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 21 yrs · run 1972–1988
Share of babies · girls
1 in 5,037
  • Highest: 1 in 5,037 girls born in 1972 were named Kami (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 34,941 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 27.3% of all girls named Kami (2,438) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s43#2,458 (1959)#3,536
1960s847#748 (1969)#1,381
1970s2,438#551 (1972)#681
1980s2,027#604 (1980)#849
1990s1,300#1,077 (1990)#1,328
2000s1,268#1,480 (2006)#1,607
2010s698#1,703 (2010)#2,664
2020s304#2,823 (2020)#3,198

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Kami in 1957

girls
#4,918
7 births · 1 in 292,122 girls

Top girls' names in 1957

  1. #1Mary61,102
  2. #2Susan45,954
  3. #3Linda44,517
  4. #4Debra42,728
  5. #5Karen40,591
  6. #6Deborah40,096
  7. #7Cynthia39,340
  8. #8Patricia39,283
  9. #9Barbara29,692
  10. #10Donna28,042
  11. #4,918Kami7
More about 1957

girls

2,044,851 girls got a published name in 1957; 1 in 292,122 of them was named Kami, which outranked 29.9% of the 7,015 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Kami
  1. #4,536Yong8
  2. #4,536Ysabel8
  3. #4,536Zenda8
  4. #4,918Kami7
  5. #4,918Adah7
  6. #4,918Adline7
  7. #4,918Adonica7
  8. #5,377Abbye6
  9. #5,377Adam6
  10. #5,377Adelfa6

Tied with 458 names at #4,918; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1956
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,944Tammi#3,696 → #752
  2. ↑ 1,310Tamela#2,151 → #841
  3. ↑ 1,298Tammie#1,662 → #364
  4. ↑ 993Tia#1,968 → #975
  5. ↑ 676Tamera#1,287 → #611
Fallers
  1. ↓ 423Corliss#878 → #1,301
  2. ↓ 399Glynis#977 → #1,376
  3. ↓ 367Merrie#977 → #1,344
  4. ↓ 303Taryn#935 → #1,238
  5. ↓ 291Glendora#963 → #1,254

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1957 →