Kemaya — girls' name
168 babies named Kemaya in U.S. Social Security records since 1999, with the highest year being 2007. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
The verdict
168 girls have been named Kemaya since 1999, peaking in the 2000s, last recorded in 2022.
- 168
- total births
- 1999–2022
- years on record
- 2000s
- peak decade
- 52%
- born in that decade
52% of everyone ever named Kemaya was born in this single decade.
20 babies were named Kemaya in 2007 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kemaya
The Social Security Administration has registered 168 babies named Kemaya between 1999 and 2022, spanning 24 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kemaya currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 20 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kemaya performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 87 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Kemaya shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kemaya in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kemaya 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 168 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.
Kemaya at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Kemaya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1999
- Peak year (2007)
- 20
- Annual births at peak — across 24 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
168 total births across 24 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2007 with 20 births in a single year.
Kemaya by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 87 births that decade — 52% of Kemaya's all-time total
Kemaya decade highlights
- Peak decade 87 births
- Runner-up 69 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Kemaya's strongest decade
87 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 52% of all-time use.
Kemaya by state
Where Kemaya concentrates geographically — total births since 1999
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Georgia | | 5 | 3.0% |
5 of 168 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Georgia 3.0% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Georgia accounts for 3.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1999–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.