Kamilah
Kamilah was given to 94 girls in 2025, #2,029 among girls’ names; 6,489 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,390 Americans named Kamilah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kamilah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kamilah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kamilah is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kamilah?
#2,029 among girls’ names, 2025
Kamilah fell from #1,165 in 2015 to #2,029 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.12 to 0.06 per 1,000.
341 babies in 2019, the peak
Kamilah peaked in 2019, when 341 girls were given it, #806 among girls’ names. The 94 births of 2025 are 28% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 94 | #2,029 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 152 | #1,446 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 209 | #1,161 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 268 | #988 | 0.16 |
| 2021 | 264 | #984 | 0.16 |
| 2020 | 330 | #827 | 0.20 |
| 2019 | 341 | #806 | 0.20 |
| 2018 | 335 | #812 | 0.20 |
| 2017 | 237 | #1,074 | 0.14 |
| 2016 | 223 | #1,138 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 217 | #1,165 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 229 | #1,111 | 0.13 |
| 2013 | 214 | #1,131 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 225 | #1,101 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 214 | #1,146 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 200 | #1,209 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 191 | #1,277 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 147 | #1,566 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 119 | #1,797 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 105 | #1,927 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 101 | #1,916 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 60 | #2,722 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 60 | #2,650 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 45 | #3,169 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 52 | #2,823 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 46 | #3,040 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,596 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 37 | #3,322 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,792 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 34 | #3,383 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,044 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,902 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 59 | #2,222 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 62 | #2,161 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 59 | #2,219 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 78 | #1,828 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 55 | #2,200 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 55 | #2,104 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 53 | #2,078 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 50 | #2,133 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 61 | #1,843 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 61 | #1,783 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 85 | #1,395 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 96 | #1,313 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 76 | #1,564 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 86 | #1,426 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 107 | #1,216 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 122 | #1,080 | 0.08 |
| 1977 | 172 | #856 | 0.11 |
| 1976 | 79 | #1,361 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 54 | #1,740 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 48 | #1,831 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 37 | #2,149 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,217 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,307 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kamilah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kamilah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kamilah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kamilah, and how old are they?
6,390 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 6,489 Americans ever recorded as Kamilah. The median Kamilah alive today is 14 years old; half are between 7 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 4,168 people named Kamilah (4,160 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,182 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 695 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 935 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,660 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,090 |
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 Kamilah born?
The states with the most babies named Kamilah are Texas, California and Florida, with 87% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 18 | #1,380 | 1.3× |
| California | 13 | #1,698 | 1.6× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,613 | 1.1× |
| New York | 6 | #1,944 | 1.0× |
Where Kamilah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kamilah is most over-represented in California: since 1971 it was given 1.6 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 Kamilah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Kamilah?
Kamilah is a less common spelling of Camila: SSA has recorded 6,489 Kamilah and 123,976 Camila since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 162,500 babies since 1880, Kamilah is the third most given (4.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 94 of their 7,849 babies (1.2%), the fifth 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 Kamilah
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 Kamilah and names like it
- Compare Kamilah and CamilaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKamilah peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kamilah since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Kamilah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kamilah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.