Kamalei — #16038 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Kamalei

The Social Security Administration has registered 117 babies named Kamalei between 1995 and 2024, spanning 30 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kamalei currently holds the #16038 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 14 babies received it in a single year. Kamalei is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 30 additional births since 2001.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kamalei performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 38 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Kamalei shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Hawaii, which accounts for 54 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kamalei in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kamalei in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 117 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.