girls:
112 births since 1995
#5604 (2nd percentile)
boys:
30 births since 2001
#4556 (1st percentile)
overall:
142 births since 1995
#7597 (2nd percentile)
The name Kamalei is the #7,597 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 142 recorded births since 1995. This represents the 1.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,604 (1.9% percentile) for all time with 112 births since 1995. For boys, it ranks #4,556 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 30 births since 2001.
Kamalei first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1995 (1995 for girls and 2001 for boys). Birth data for Kamalei is available in 18 out of the 28 years between 1995 and 2022 (16 years for girls and 5 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Kamalei has been given predominantly to girls, with 78.9% of all recorded births being female. In 2022, 100.0% of babies named Kamalei were girls.
For girls, Kamalei reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #975) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
For boys, Kamalei reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #823) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kamalei".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Kamalei. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 27.8% confident that Kamalei is pronounced as kah-mah-LAY, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kuh-MUH-lay, at 16.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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