Kamiah
Kamiah was given to 46 girls in 2025, #3,360 among girls’ names; 1,782 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,770 Americans named Kamiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kamiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kamiah?
#3,360 among girls’ names, 2025
Kamiah fell from #2,227 in 2015 to #3,360 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 47.6 to 28.6 per million.
125 babies in 2016, the peak
Kamiah peaked in 2016, when 125 girls were given it, #1,709 among girls’ names. The 46 births of 2025 are 37% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46 | #3,360 | 28.6 |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,859 | 24.1 |
| 2023 | 42 | #3,672 | 26.2 |
| 2022 | 63 | #2,737 | 38.4 |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,660 | 39.6 |
| 2020 | 74 | #2,388 | 45.8 |
| 2019 | 72 | #2,468 | 42.9 |
| 2018 | 69 | #2,544 | 40.6 |
| 2017 | 88 | #2,172 | 51.0 |
| 2016 | 125 | #1,709 | 70.5 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 85 | #2,227 | 47.6 |
| 2014 | 56 | #3,022 | 31.3 |
| 2013 | 61 | #2,822 | 34.8 |
| 2012 | 70 | #2,582 | 39.7 |
| 2011 | 86 | #2,206 | 48.9 |
| 2010 | 82 | #2,323 | 46.1 |
| 2009 | 99 | #2,068 | 53.9 |
| 2008 | 100 | #2,055 | 52.9 |
| 2007 | 71 | #2,607 | 36.9 |
| 2006 | 71 | #2,569 | 37.3 |
| 2005 | 62 | #2,710 | 33.6 |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,857 | 20.1 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,148 | 17.5 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,163 | 12.8 |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,588 | 20.5 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,113 | 16.5 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,321 | 11.3 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,922 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,047 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,125 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,001 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,424 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,079 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,797 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,038 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kamiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kamiah 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 Kamiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kamiah, and how old are they?
1,770 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,782 Americans ever recorded as Kamiah. The median Kamiah alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,136 people named Kamiah (1,121 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,461 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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 | 46 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 842 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 879 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 27,230 babies since 1880, Kamiah is the fifth most given (6.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 46 of their 547 babies (8.4%), again the fifth most given.
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 Kamiah
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 Kamiah and names like it
- Compare Kamiah and KamiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKamiah peaked in 2016.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kamiah since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Kamiah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kamiah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.