Kamaya
Kamaya was given to 62 girls in 2025, #2,763 among girls’ names; 1,913 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,900 Americans named Kamaya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kamaya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kamaya?
#2,763 among girls’ names, 2025
Kamaya rose from #3,235 in 2015 to #2,763 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 28.6 to 38.6 per million.
110 babies in 2008, the peak
Kamaya peaked in 2008, when 110 girls were given it, #1,920 among girls’ names. The 62 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 62 | #2,763 | 38.6 |
| 2024 | 64 | #2,707 | 39.5 |
| 2023 | 66 | #2,657 | 41.1 |
| 2022 | 88 | #2,164 | 53.7 |
| 2021 | 74 | #2,428 | 45.1 |
| 2020 | 71 | #2,456 | 43.9 |
| 2019 | 71 | #2,493 | 42.3 |
| 2018 | 72 | #2,469 | 42.3 |
| 2017 | 65 | #2,680 | 37.6 |
| 2016 | 81 | #2,333 | 45.7 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 51 | #3,235 | 28.6 |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,866 | 33.6 |
| 2013 | 64 | #2,712 | 36.5 |
| 2012 | 85 | #2,219 | 48.3 |
| 2011 | 72 | #2,522 | 40.9 |
| 2010 | 82 | #2,322 | 46.1 |
| 2009 | 92 | #2,175 | 50.1 |
| 2008 | 110 | #1,920 | 58.2 |
| 2007 | 88 | #2,236 | 45.8 |
| 2006 | 100 | #1,995 | 52.6 |
| 2005 | 79 | #2,288 | 42.8 |
| 2004 | 50 | #3,096 | 27.2 |
| 2003 | 42 | #3,437 | 23.0 |
| 2002 | 41 | #3,357 | 22.8 |
| 2001 | 43 | #3,219 | 23.9 |
| 2000 | 34 | #3,768 | 18.7 |
| 1999 | 30 | #3,918 | 16.9 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,578 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,046 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,463 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,768 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,423 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,335 | 5.5 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,812 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,142 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kamaya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kamaya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kamaya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kamaya, and how old are they?
1,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,913 Americans ever recorded as Kamaya. The median Kamaya alive today is 14 years old; half are between 7 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 1,331 people named Kamaya (1,318 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,494 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 54 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 960 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 884 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Kamaya born?
The states with the most babies named Kamaya are California, Virginia and New Jersey, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Virginia and New Jersey are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8 | #2,386 | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,280 | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,266 | 0.3× |
Where Kamaya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kamaya is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1987 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kamaya with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 18,895 babies since 1880, Kamaya is the fourth most given (10% of them). In 2025 it was given to 62 of their 533 babies (12%), the third 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 Kamaya
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 Kamaya and names like it
- Compare Kamaya and KamiyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKamaya peaked in 2008.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kamaya since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Kamaya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kamaya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.