Kemari
#7,133 for girls in 2025, 15 births · #1,942 for boys in 2025, 79 births
Given to boys 74.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2009 · 100 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,585since 1996
Kemari over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,133 | 15 | #1,942 | 79 |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 | #1,985 | 78 |
| 2023 | #7,247 | 15 | #2,541 | 52 |
| 2022 | #5,465 | 23 | #2,379 | 59 |
| 2021 | #5,237 | 24 | #2,157 | 66 |
| 2020 | #7,212 | 15 | #1,922 | 76 |
| 2019 | #5,612 | 22 | #2,188 | 64 |
| 2018 | #7,100 | 16 | #2,417 | 54 |
| 2017 | #7,092 | 16 | #2,345 | 55 |
| 2016 | #5,985 | 21 | #2,551 | 49 |
| 2015 | #6,977 | 17 | #2,429 | 52 |
| 2014 | #5,163 | 26 | #2,154 | 63 |
| 2013 | #7,372 | 16 | #2,299 | 55 |
| 2012 | #5,710 | 23 | #2,049 | 67 |
| 2011 | #5,935 | 22 | #1,824 | 78 |
| 2010 | #5,108 | 27 | #1,834 | 79 |
| 2009 | #4,370 | 34 | #1,594 | 100 |
| 2008 | #5,750 | 24 | #1,719 | 88 |
| 2007 | #5,230 | 27 | #1,830 | 79 |
| 2006 | #5,709 | 23 | #2,010 | 66 |
| 2005 | #4,958 | 26 | #2,567 | 43 |
| 2004 | #7,391 | 15 | #3,074 | 32 |
| 2003 | #8,505 | 12 | #2,269 | 47 |
| 2002 | #12,187 | 7 | #3,095 | 29 |
| 2001 | #6,956 | 15 | #4,302 | 18 |
| 2000 | #8,534 | 11 | #3,922 | 20 |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 | #6,530 | 9 |
| 1998 | #10,122 | 8 | #4,650 | 14 |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | #7,281 | 7 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #7,136 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kemari! It came in at #7,136, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1996–1997, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
Where Kemari is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#370 · 1 in 1,355
- South Carolina#743 · 1 in 4,240
- Alabama#765 · 1 in 4,304
- Wisconsin#785 · 1 in 4,686
- Georgia#1,216 · 1 in 8,370
Best ever in a state: #370 in Mississippi, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Mississippi | #370 | 8 | 1 in 1,355 |
| South Carolina | #743 | 5 | 1 in 4,240 |
| Alabama | #765 | 5 | 1 in 4,304 |
| Wisconsin | #785 | 5 | 1 in 4,686 |
| Georgia | #1,216 | 6 | 1 in 8,370 |
| Florida | #1,353 | 8 | 1 in 11,942 |
| Texas | #1,908 | 8 | 1 in 21,881 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kemari
- 43 spots since 2024 (#1,985 → #1,942)
- 20 spots since 2020 (#1,922 → #1,942)
- 487 spots since 2015 (#2,429 → #1,942)
- Debuted 1996
- Peaked 2009 at #1,594 (100 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 19,836 boys born in 2009 were named Kemari (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 21,621 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 38.9% of all boys named Kemari (616) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1995, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 37 | #4,650 (1998) | #6,399 |
| 2000s | 522 | #1,594 (2009) | #2,638 |
| 2010s | 616 | #1,824 (2011) | #2,209 |
| 2020s | 410 | #1,922 (2020) | #2,154 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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