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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 1996
No state had 5 or more boys named Kemari in 1996, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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.
Kemari in 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 292,168 of them was named Kemari, which outranked 25.7% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #10,567Zuly7
- #10,567Zury7
- #10,567Zyanya7
- #11,807Kemari6
- #11,807Aalayah6
- #11,807Aamna6
- #11,807Aarthi6
- #13,518Aaleeyah5
- #13,518Abbiegail5
- #13,518Abigahil5
Tied with 1,710 names at #11,807; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 270,614 of them was named Kemari, which outranked 32.3% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #6,496Zeferino8
- #6,496Ziare8
- #6,496Zohair8
- #7,136Kemari7
- #7,136Aaric7
- #7,136Aasin7
- #7,136Abby7
- #7,971Aalim6
- #7,971Aaronjames6
- #7,971Abdalla6
Tied with 834 names at #7,136; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.