Kami
Kami was given to 46 girls in 2025, #3,359 among girls’ names; 8,977 Americans have been recorded with it since 1957 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,620 Americans named Kami and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 25 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kami by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kami?
#3,359 among girls’ names, 2025
Kami fell from #2,791 in 2015 to #3,359 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 35.3 to 28.6 per million.
307 babies in 1980, the peak
Kami peaked in 1980, when 307 girls were given it, #604 among girls’ names. The 46 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46 | #3,359 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,924 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 52 | #3,158 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 54 | #3,054 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 56 | #2,978 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 58 | #2,839 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 50 | #3,197 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 51 | #3,182 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 54 | #3,037 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 52 | #3,160 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 63 | #2,791 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 72 | #2,503 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 61 | #2,821 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 86 | #2,198 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 86 | #2,205 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 123 | #1,708 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 153 | #1,500 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 141 | #1,612 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 133 | #1,669 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 149 | #1,483 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 122 | #1,640 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 130 | #1,537 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 125 | #1,546 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 103 | #1,760 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 109 | #1,665 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 103 | #1,710 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 124 | #1,414 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 113 | #1,502 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 111 | #1,478 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 98 | #1,590 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 121 | #1,361 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 131 | #1,295 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 141 | #1,231 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 152 | #1,159 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 145 | #1,192 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 164 | #1,077 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 144 | #1,145 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 177 | #951 | 0.10 |
| 1987 | 160 | #983 | 0.09 |
| 1986 | 170 | #936 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 189 | #854 | 0.11 |
| 1984 | 181 | #849 | 0.11 |
| 1983 | 208 | #767 | 0.12 |
| 1982 | 218 | #759 | 0.13 |
| 1981 | 273 | #649 | 0.16 |
| 1980 | 307 | #604 | 0.18 |
| 1979 | 293 | #607 | 0.18 |
| 1978 | 245 | #658 | 0.16 |
| 1977 | 266 | #631 | 0.17 |
| 1976 | 262 | #605 | 0.18 |
| 1975 | 284 | #583 | 0.19 |
| 1974 | 276 | #576 | 0.19 |
| 1973 | 263 | #600 | 0.18 |
| 1972 | 302 | #551 | 0.20 |
| 1971 | 116 | #1,043 | 0.07 |
| 1970 | 131 | #966 | 0.07 |
| 1969 | 183 | #748 | 0.11 |
| 1968 | 115 | #968 | 0.07 |
| 1967 | 159 | #789 | 0.10 |
| 1966 | 68 | #1,318 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 69 | #1,314 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 57 | #1,509 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 84 | #1,191 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 58 | #1,467 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 26 | #2,386 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 28 | #2,221 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 22 | #2,482 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,294 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,125 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kami a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kami has been given almost only to girls: 52 boys in 69 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kami: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kami, and how old are they?
8,620 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 8,977 Americans ever recorded as Kami. The median Kami alive today is 41 years old; half are between 25 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 8,289 people named Kami (8,099 women and girls, 190 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,405 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 254 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,120 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,590 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,910 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 734 |
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 Kami born?
The states with the most babies named Kami are Texas, California and Utah, with 36% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Utah is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 691 | #3,105 | 0.9× |
| California | 624 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Utah | 615 | not ranked | 5.8× |
| Ohio | 313 | #1,577 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 266 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Washington | 251 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 231 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 211 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Louisiana | 196 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 188 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Kami is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kami is most over-represented in Utah: since 1957 it was given 5.8 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 Kami 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 28,065 babies since 1880, Kami is the most given (32% of them). In 2025 it was given to 46 of their 318 babies (14%), 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 Kami
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 Kami and names like it
- Compare Kami and CamiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKami peaked in 1980.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kami since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Kami.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kami alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.