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Kami vs Kamreigh

American parents have registered 8,977 Kamis since 1880, against 62 Kamreighs. Kami is still ahead, with 46 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kami against Kamreigh, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kami Kamreigh

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Kami has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1957 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2017, when Kami had 59 and Kamreigh had 18.

Side by side

  Kami Kamreigh
Total US births 8,97762
Most in one year 30718
Babies in 2025 46under 5
Estimated living today 8,60060
Median age today 407
Peak year 19802017
Best rank 604th girls6,531st girls
Rank in 2025 3,342ndunranked
First recorded 19572017
Girls / boys 8,925 / 5262 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Kamis alive today are over 40; half the Kamreighs are over 7. That is 33 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kami and Kamreigh.