Kemari
Kemari is given to both girls and boys: 15 girls and 79 boys were given it in 2025 (#7,321 among girls’ names and #1,954 among boys’, #3,709 among all names counting both); 2,122 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,100 Americans named Kemari and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kemari by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kemari?
#1,954 among boys’ names, 2025
Kemari rose from #2,447 in 2015 to #1,954 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 27.1 to 46.3 per million.
134 babies in 2009, the peak
Kemari peaked in 2009, when 134 babies were given it (100 boys, #1,597 among boys’ names). The 94 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 70% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,321 | 79 | #1,954 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,689 | 78 | #1,990 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,452 | 52 | #2,563 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,551 | 59 | #2,394 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,319 | 66 | #2,162 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,392 | 76 | #1,931 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,709 | 64 | #2,199 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,251 | 54 | #2,430 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,253 | 55 | #2,367 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,077 | 49 | #2,574 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #7,122 | 52 | #2,447 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,229 | 63 | #2,167 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,576 | 55 | #2,316 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,797 | 67 | #2,056 |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,040 | 78 | #1,830 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,174 | 79 | #1,847 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,423 | 100 | #1,597 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,856 | 88 | #1,728 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,307 | 79 | #1,839 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,823 | 66 | #2,023 |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,033 | 43 | #2,589 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,615 | 32 | #3,114 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,781 | 47 | #2,294 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,915 | 29 | #3,142 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,135 | 18 | #4,385 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,867 | 20 | #3,998 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,517 | 9 | #6,824 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,614 | 14 | #4,766 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,906 | 7 | #7,706 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,632 | 7 | #7,571 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,527 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,222 | under 5 |
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 Kemari a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,122 Americans recorded as Kemari, 25% are girls and 75% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kemari: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kemari, and how old are they?
2,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,122 Americans ever recorded as Kemari. The median Kemari alive today is 14 years old; half are between 7 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,239 people named Kemari (330 women and girls, 909 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,619 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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 | 22 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,050 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,030 |
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 Kemari born?
The states with the most babies named Kemari are Florida, Texas and Mississippi, with 53% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Mississippi is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 8 | #1,414 | 1.8× |
| Texas | 8 | #2,004 | 0.3× |
| Mississippi | 8 | #392 | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,292 | 1.1× |
| Alabama | 5 | #819 | 1.1× |
| South Carolina | 5 | #808 | 0.6× |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #841 | 0.1× |
Where Kemari is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kemari is most over-represented in Florida: since 1991 it was given 1.8 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 boys’ 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 Kemari with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,995 babies since 1880, Kemari is the most given (71% of them). In 2025 it was given to 94 of their 128 babies (73%), 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 Kemari
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 Kemari and names like it
- Compare Kemari and KemauriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKemari peaked in 2009.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kemari since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Kemari.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kemari alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.