Kemari — #1988 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kemari

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,505 babies named Kemari between 1996 and 2024, spanning 29 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kemari currently holds the #1988 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 100 babies received it in a single year. Kemari is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 522 additional births since 1991.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kemari performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 615 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Kemari shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Florida, which accounts for 173 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Kemari in 16 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kemari 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 1,505 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.