Kamaiya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ka-MY-a
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Kamaiya is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
Where does Kamaiya come from?
Modern: spelling of Kamaiyah; African-American coinage with the -iyah ending
Meaning borrowed from Kamaiyah.
Is Kamaiya a girl's or a boy's name?
Kamaiya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kamaiya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 14,937th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Kamaiya, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2006, with 19 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Kamaiya than any year since 2004.
Half of all the girls named Kamaiya in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 459 girls in the US were given Kamaiya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #633, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.
Kamaiya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,117 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,626 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,557 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,694 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,612 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,872 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 8 | #11,964 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,424 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,175 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,375 |
| 2008 | 7 | #13,827 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,125 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,590 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,123 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,181 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,013 |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,867 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
Names like Kamaiya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kaliyah, Zaniyah, Jaliyah, Aaliyah, Zaliyah, Zayla, Safa, Hadassah, Aziyah, Zahara, Zamira, Safiya
Other spellings of Kamaiya
Kamiyah, Kamaya, Kamaiyah, Camiyah, Kamayah, Khamiyah, Camaya, Camiya, Khamiya, Camyah
Names related to Kamaiya
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Kamaiya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kamaiya, updated 20 October 2026.