girls:
2k births since 1965
#3833 (33rd percentile)
boys:
26 births since 2002
#4560 (1st percentile)
overall:
2k births since 1965
#5766 (25th percentile)
The name Kamara is the #5,766 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,009 recorded births since 1965. This represents the 25.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 25.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,833 (32.9% percentile) for all time with 1,983 births since 1965. For boys, it ranks #4,560 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 26 births since 2002.
Kamara first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1965 (1965 for girls and 2002 for boys). Birth data for Kamara is available in 57 out of the 59 years between 1965 and 2023 (57 years for girls and 4 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 Kamara has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kamara reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 8.5% percentile (ranked #878) with 42 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 42 births per million (ranked 8.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Kamara ranks #908 for girls (4.1% percentile) with 25 births per million, which is 59.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kamara reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #913) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kamara".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kamara is pronounced as kuh-MAH-ruh, which has 3 syllables.
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