Kamilah — #1448 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Kamilah

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,395 babies named Kamilah between 1971 and 2024, spanning 54 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kamilah currently holds the #1448 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 341 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kamilah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,435 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Kamilah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,292 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Kamilah in 32 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kamilah 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 6,395 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.