girls:
121 births since 1975
#5595 (2nd percentile)
boys:
10 births since 2016
#4576 (0th percentile)
overall:
131 births since 1975
#7608 (2nd percentile)
The name Kameo is the #7,608 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 131 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 1.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,595 (2.1% percentile) for all time with 121 births since 1975. For boys, it ranks #4,576 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 2016.
Kameo first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 (1975 for girls and 2016 for boys). Birth data for Kameo is available in 20 out of the 47 years between 1975 and 2021 (19 years for girls and 2 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 Kameo has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 92.4% of all recorded births being female. In 2021, 0.0% of babies named Kameo were girls.
For girls, Kameo reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #796) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
For boys, Kameo reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #930) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kameo".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Kameo. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.6% confident that Kameo is pronounced as kuh-MEE-oh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kuh-MAY-oh, at 32.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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