Kamilah
#2,017 for girls in 2025, 94 births
- Peak · girls
- 2019 · 341 births
- Debut · girls
- 20 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,489since 1971
Kamilah over time
Rank among girls' names. Kamilah has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,017 | 94 |
| 2024 | #1,446 | 152 |
| 2023 | #1,158 | 209 |
| 2022 | #987 | 268 |
| 2021 | #983 | 264 |
| 2020 | #825 | 330 |
| 2019 | #805 | 341 |
| 2018 | #812 | 335 |
| 2017 | #1,074 | 237 |
| 2016 | #1,137 | 223 |
| 2015 | #1,162 | 217 |
| 2014 | #1,110 | 229 |
| 2013 | #1,131 | 214 |
| 2012 | #1,096 | 225 |
| 2011 | #1,144 | 214 |
| 2010 | #1,206 | 200 |
| 2009 | #1,272 | 191 |
| 2008 | #1,562 | 147 |
| 2007 | #1,792 | 119 |
| 2006 | #1,918 | 105 |
| 2005 | #1,911 | 101 |
| 2004 | #2,711 | 60 |
| 2003 | #2,638 | 60 |
| 2002 | #3,146 | 45 |
| 2001 | #2,808 | 52 |
| 2000 | #3,020 | 46 |
| 1999 | #3,569 | 34 |
| 1998 | #3,301 | 37 |
| 1997 | #2,776 | 44 |
| 1996 | #3,361 | 34 |
| 1995 | #3,022 | 38 |
| 1994 | #2,877 | 41 |
| 1993 | #2,217 | 59 |
| 1992 | #2,156 | 62 |
| 1991 | #2,215 | 59 |
| 1990 | #1,828 | 78 |
| 1989 | #2,194 | 55 |
| 1988 | #2,093 | 55 |
| 1987 | #2,065 | 53 |
| 1986 | #2,116 | 50 |
| 1985 | #1,833 | 61 |
| 1984 | #1,771 | 61 |
| 1983 | #1,389 | 85 |
| 1982 | #1,308 | 96 |
| 1981 | #1,559 | 76 |
| 1980 | #1,419 | 86 |
| 1979 | #1,210 | 107 |
| 1978 | #1,078 | 122 |
| 1977 | #854 | 172 |
| 1976 | #1,355 | 79 |
| 1975 | #1,729 | 54 |
| 1974 | #1,820 | 48 |
| 1973 | #2,127 | 37 |
| 1972 | #5,959 | 8 |
| 1971 | #3,266 | 20 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kamilah! It came in at #3,266, and was given to 20 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1972, when fewer than 9 girls a year got the name.
Where Kamilah is popular in 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Mexico#449 · 1 in 1,604
- California#665 · 1 in 3,764
- Texas#887 · 1 in 5,208
- Arizona#922 · 1 in 4,789
- Washington#947 · 1 in 5,227
Best ever in a state: #277 in Nevada, 2019.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Mexico | #449 | 5 | 1 in 1,604 |
| California | #665 | 58 | 1 in 3,764 |
| Texas | #887 | 32 | 1 in 5,208 |
| Arizona | #922 | 7 | 1 in 4,789 |
| Washington | #947 | 6 | 1 in 5,227 |
| New Jersey | #1,197 | 5 | 1 in 7,665 |
| Florida | #1,224 | 10 | 1 in 8,233 |
| Illinois | #1,332 | 7 | 1 in 9,034 |
| New York | #1,470 | 9 | 1 in 10,530 |
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See more about Kamilah
- 571 spots since 2024 (#1,446 → #2,017)
- 1,192 spots since 2020 (#825 → #2,017)
- 855 spots since 2015 (#1,162 → #2,017)
- Biggest jump: 501 spots in 1977 (#1,355 → #854)
- Biggest drop: 224 spots in 1978 (#854 → #1,078)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2019 at #805 (341 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 2018–2022
- Highest: 1 in 4,899 girls born in 2020 were named Kamilah (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 17,099 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #805 in 2019, was only 1 in 4,922 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 37.5% of all girls named Kamilah (2,435) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 647 | #854 (1977) | #2,155 |
| 1980s | 678 | #1,308 (1982) | #1,775 |
| 1990s | 486 | #1,828 (1990) | #2,732 |
| 2000s | 926 | #1,272 (2009) | #2,278 |
| 2010s | 2,435 | #805 (2019) | #1,068 |
| 2020s | 1,317 | #825 (2020) | #1,236 |
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.
Kamilah in 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
More about 2009
girls
1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 9,618 of them was named Kamilah, which outranked 93.7% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,267Estefania192
- #1,267Maliya192
- #1,267Soleil192
- #1,272Kamilah191
- #1,272Brissa191
- #1,272Calista191
- #1,272Citlali191
- #1,280Honesty190
- #1,280Kenia190
- #1,280Lacie190
Tied with 7 names at #1,272; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.