Kemani
Kemani is given to both girls and boys: 31 girls and 22 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,497 among girls’ names and #4,620 among boys’, #5,438 among all names counting both); 1,202 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,190 Americans named Kemani 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 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kemani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kemani?
#4,497 among girls’ names, 2025
Kemani rose from #6,136 in 2015 to #4,497 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 11.8 to 19.3 per million.
67 babies in 2012, the peak
Kemani peaked in 2012, when 67 babies were given it (32 girls, #4,550 among girls’ names). The 53 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 79% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,497 | 22 | #4,620 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,525 | 19 | #5,167 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,184 | 8 | #9,365 |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,414 | 14 | #6,324 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,478 | 17 | #5,454 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,098 | 14 | #6,145 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,079 | 13 | #6,605 |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,619 | 16 | #5,661 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,123 | 17 | #5,410 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,536 | 19 | #5,046 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #6,136 | 11 | #7,310 |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,144 | 22 | #4,463 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,743 | 22 | #4,395 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,550 | 35 | #3,204 |
| 2011 | 47 | #3,432 | 13 | #6,422 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,285 | 29 | #3,674 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,465 | 26 | #3,976 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,080 | 21 | #4,629 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,248 | 26 | #3,959 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,890 | 26 | #3,846 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,886 | 15 | #5,438 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,454 | 17 | #4,897 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,050 | 14 | #5,412 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,535 | 12 | #5,902 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,942 | 13 | #5,524 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,798 | 22 | #3,699 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,965 | 9 | #6,823 |
| 1998 | under 5 | 7 | #8,038 | |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,282 | 9 | #6,376 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,631 | 5 | #9,803 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,545 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,126 | 6 | #8,299 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Kemani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,202 Americans recorded as Kemani, 57% are girls and 43% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kemani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kemani, and how old are they?
1,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,202 Americans ever recorded as Kemani. The median Kemani alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 760 people named Kemani (395 women and girls, 365 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 955 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 28 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 617 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 544 |
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 6 names spelled alike, given to 2,895 babies since 1880, Kemani is the most given (42% of them). In 2025 it was given to 53 of their 140 babies (38%), again the 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 Kemani
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 Kemani and names like it
- Compare Kemani and KemoniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKemani peaked in 2012.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kemani since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Kemani.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kemani alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.