girls:
8.8k births since 1957
#1729 (70th percentile)
boys:
52 births since 2004
#4534 (1st percentile)
overall:
8.9k births since 1957
#2864 (63rd percentile)
The name Kami is the #2,864 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,892 recorded births since 1957. This represents the 63.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 63.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,729 (69.8% percentile) for all time with 8,840 births since 1957. For boys, it ranks #4,534 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 52 births since 2004.
Kami first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1957 (1957 for girls and 2004 for boys).
The name Kami has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.4% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 89.7% of babies named Kami were girls.
For girls, Kami reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 36.4% percentile (ranked #500) with 172 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 187 births per million (ranked 35.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Kami ranks #900 for girls (5.0% percentile) with 30 births per million, which is 15.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kami reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #919) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Kami ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 61.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kami".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Kami. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 84.2% confident that Kami is pronounced as KAH-mee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kuh-MEE, at 15.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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