Kameko — girls' name
208 babies named Kameko in U.S. Social Security records since 1917, with the highest year being 1990. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
31% of everyone ever named Kameko was born in this single decade.
14 babies were named Kameko in 1990 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kameko
The Social Security Administration has registered 208 babies named Kameko between 1917 and 2008, spanning 92 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kameko currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2008. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 14 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kameko performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 64 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Kameko shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Hawaii, which accounts for 24 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kameko in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kameko 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 208 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.
Kameko at a glance
Last recorded 2008Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Kameko popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2008–1917
- Peak year (1990)
- 14
- Annual births at peak — across 92 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2008.
208 total births across 92 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1990 with 14 births in a single year.
Kameko popularity over time — boys
5 total births recorded since 1977 (Kameko as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Kameko accounts for 2% of total recorded use across both genders.
Kameko by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 64 births that decade — 31% of Kameko's all-time total
Kameko decade highlights
- Peak decade 64 births
- Runner-up 53 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Kameko's strongest decade
64 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 31% of all-time use.
Kameko by state
Where Kameko concentrates geographically — total births since 1917
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Hawaii | | 24 | 11.5% |
24 of 208 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Hawaii 11.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Hawaii accounts for 11.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1917–2008 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.