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
- Peak · girls
- 1972 · 302 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 8,925since 1957
Kami over time
Rank among girls' names. Kami has never cracked the top 500 here.
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 | #3,342 | 46 | — | |
| 2024 | #3,892 | 38 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,140 | 52 | #10,821 | 6 |
| 2022 | #3,033 | 54 | #7,768 | 10 |
| 2021 | #2,958 | 56 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,823 | 58 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | #3,172 | 50 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,158 | 51 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,014 | 54 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #3,139 | 52 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,773 | 63 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,497 | 72 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,804 | 61 | #12,136 | 5 |
| 2012 | #2,189 | 86 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,190 | 86 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,703 | 123 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | #1,492 | 153 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,605 | 141 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,666 | 133 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #1,480 | 149 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #1,639 | 122 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,533 | 130 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #1,542 | 125 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,750 | 103 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,660 | 109 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,705 | 103 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,416 | 124 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,501 | 113 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,475 | 111 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,583 | 98 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,355 | 121 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,293 | 131 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,228 | 141 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,156 | 152 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,195 | 145 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,077 | 164 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,145 | 144 | — | |
| 1988 | #949 | 177 | — | |
| 1987 | #983 | 160 | — | |
| 1986 | #933 | 170 | — | |
| 1985 | #853 | 189 | — | |
| 1984 | #848 | 181 | — | |
| 1983 | #766 | 208 | — | |
| 1982 | #759 | 218 | — | |
| 1981 | #646 | 273 | — | |
| 1980 | #604 | 307 | — | |
| 1979 | #607 | 293 | — | |
| 1978 | #655 | 245 | — | |
| 1977 | #630 | 266 | — | |
| 1976 | #605 | 262 | — | |
| 1975 | #583 | 284 | — | |
| 1974 | #574 | 276 | — | |
| 1973 | #599 | 263 | — | |
| 1972 | #551 | 302 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,041 | 116 | — | |
| 1970 | #966 | 131 | — | |
| 1969 | #748 | 183 | — | |
| 1968 | #966 | 115 | — | |
| 1967 | #788 | 159 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,312 | 68 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,302 | 69 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,497 | 57 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,188 | 84 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,456 | 58 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,359 | 26 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,196 | 28 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,458 | 22 | — | |
| 1958 | #3,232 | 14 | — | |
| 1957 | #4,918 | 7 | — | |
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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.
See more about Kami
- 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)
- Debuted 1957
- Peaked 1972 at #551 (302 births)
- Births halved by 1989, 17 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 21 yrs · run 1972–1988
- 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%)
- 27.3% of all girls named Kami (2,438) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 43 | #2,458 (1959) | #3,536 |
| 1960s | 847 | #748 (1969) | #1,381 |
| 1970s | 2,438 | #551 (1972) | #681 |
| 1980s | 2,027 | #604 (1980) | #849 |
| 1990s | 1,300 | #1,077 (1990) | #1,328 |
| 2000s | 1,268 | #1,480 (2006) | #1,607 |
| 2010s | 698 | #1,703 (2010) | #2,664 |
| 2020s | 304 | #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 2007
Top girls' names in 2007
Top boys' names in 2007
More about 2007
girls
1,922,617 girls got a published name in 2007; 1 in 14,456 of them was named Kami, which outranked 91.9% of the 20,584 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,655Samia134
- #1,655Shae134
- #1,655Zahara134
- #1,666Kami133
- #1,666Elly133
- #1,666Jasmyne133
- #1,666Kamaria133
- #1,672Amerie132
- #1,672Evalyn132
- #1,672Janette132
Tied with 5 names at #1,666; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,075,414 boys got a published name in 2007; 1 in 415,083 of them was named Kami, which outranked 14.1% of the 14,394 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,027 names at #12,367; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.