girls:
50 births since 1998
#5666 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.5k births since 1976
#3124 (32nd percentile)
overall:
1.6k births since 1976
#6164 (20th percentile)
The name Kamar is the #6,164 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,582 recorded births since 1976. This represents the 20.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 20.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,124 (31.8% percentile) for all time with 1,532 births since 1976. For girls, it ranks #5,666 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 50 births since 1998.
Kamar first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1976 (1976 for boys and 1998 for girls). Birth data for Kamar is available in 46 out of the 48 years between 1976 and 2023 (46 years for boys and 8 years for girls). 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 Kamar has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Kamar reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 9.6% percentile (ranked #791) with 41 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 41 births per million (ranked 9.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Kamar ranks #885 for boys (2.9% percentile) with 17 births per million, which is 41.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kamar reached its peak popularity in 2013, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #929) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kamar".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Kamar. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 71.4% confident that Kamar is pronounced as kuh-MAHR, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kah-MAHR, at 20.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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