Kahmari
Kahmari is given to both girls and boys: 7 girls and 38 boys were given it in 2025 (#12,505 among girls’ names and #3,161 among boys’, #6,045 among all names counting both); 617 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kahmari by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kahmari?
#3,161 among boys’ names, 2025
Kahmari rose from #6,133 in 2015 to #3,161 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 7.3 to 22.2 per million.
51 babies in 2023, the peak
Kahmari peaked in 2023, when 51 babies were given it (41 boys, #3,029 among boys’ names). The 45 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 88% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,505 | 38 | #3,161 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,223 | 34 | #3,423 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,931 | 41 | #3,029 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,427 | 34 | #3,437 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,660 | 27 | #3,952 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,228 | 25 | #4,073 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,693 | 19 | #5,045 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,451 | 20 | #4,835 |
| 2017 | under 5 | 14 | #6,180 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 14 | #6,180 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 14 | #6,133 | |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,785 | 11 | #7,279 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,957 | 11 | #7,281 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,376 | 20 | #4,783 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,724 | 23 | #4,286 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,337 | 12 | #6,885 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,014 | 25 | #4,102 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,064 | 20 | #4,813 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,456 | 17 | #5,317 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,512 | 15 | #5,660 |
| 2005 | under 5 | 9 | #7,977 | |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,413 | 12 | #6,325 |
| 2003 | under 5 | 8 | #8,216 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 7 | #8,913 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 5 | #10,014 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Kahmari a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 617 Americans recorded as Kahmari, 23% are girls and 77% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kahmari: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kahmari, and how old are they?
An estimated 612 Americans named Kahmari and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 289 people named Kahmari (77 women and girls, 212 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 375 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
How common is the spelling Kahmari?
Kahmari is a less common spelling of Kamari: SSA has recorded 617 Kahmari and 18,390 Kamari since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 27,317 babies since 1880, Kahmari is the fifth most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 45 of their 1,425 babies (3.2%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Kahmari
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 Kahmari and names like it
- Compare Kahmari and KamariBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKahmari peaked in 2023.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kahmari since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Kahmari.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kahmari alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.