Kaemon
Kaemon was last recorded in 2023, when 8 babies were given it; 336 Americans have been recorded with it between 1997 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaemon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaemon?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,331, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 2007, the peak
Kaemon peaked in 2007, when 27 boys were given it, #3,835 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 8 | #9,331 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,404 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,418 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 5 | #13,032 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,429 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,206 | 4.4 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,261 | 4.2 |
| 2015 | 13 | #6,508 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,836 | 5.2 |
| 2013 | 16 | #5,526 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 13 | #6,480 | 6.9 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,795 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 16 | #5,601 | 8.3 |
| 2009 | 20 | #4,836 | 10.1 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,917 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 27 | #3,835 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 23 | #4,153 | 11.2 |
| 2005 | 24 | #3,870 | 12.0 |
| 2004 | 18 | #4,685 | 9.1 |
| 2003 | 16 | #4,924 | 8.1 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,327 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,839 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,731 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 13 | #5,169 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 12 | #5,304 | 6.3 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,693 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaemon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaemon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kaemon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaemon, and how old are they?
An estimated 331 Americans named Kaemon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 13 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 287 people named Kaemon (4 women and girls, 283 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 307 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,828 babies since 1880, Kaemon is the second most given (18% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kaemon
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Kaemon and names like it
- Compare Kaemon and KamenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKaemon peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaemon since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Kaemon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kaemon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.