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Kami

Gender
Girl
Say it
KAM-ee
US rank, 2025
#3,341 for girls

Kami is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 3,341st for girls in the US (46 babies).

What does Kami mean?

Pet form of names like Camille; also a Japanese word

Used as a pet form of names like Camille and Kamila; in Japanese, kami means a god or spirit.

Is Kami a girl's or a boy's name?

Kami is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 46 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Kami in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2015, with 6 girls.

1997Busiest: 6 in 20152023
Kami in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20234#4,915
20220–
20216#3,697
20200–
20190–
20181#7,536
20173#5,998
20164#4,980
20156#3,777
20140–
20130–
20121#7,881
20113#6,007
20103#5,938
20090–
20080–
20070–
20060–
20050–
20041#6,173
20030–
20021#5,540
20012#5,287
20001#5,280
19990–
19981#5,152
19971#5,110

How popular is Kami in the US?

Rank in 2025
3,341st among girls
Babies in 2025
46 about 1 in 35,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steady down 14% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 46 girls in the US were named Kami, making it the 3,341st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,823rd. Its busiest year was 1980, with 307 girls. It first appears in the records in 1957.

Half of all the girls named Kami in the US since 1880 were born between 1975 and 2000, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 107 girls in the US were given Kami or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,620, up from #3,341 for this spelling alone.

1957Busiest: 307 in 19802025
Kami in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202546#3,341
202438#3,892
202352#3,140
202254#3,033
202156#2,958
202058#2,823
201950#3,171
201851#3,157
201754#3,014
201652#3,139
201563#2,773
201472#2,497
201361#2,803
201286#2,189
201186#2,190
2010123#1,703
2009153#1,492
2008141#1,605
2007133#1,666
2006149#1,480
2005122#1,638
2004130#1,532
2003125#1,541
2002103#1,748
2001109#1,658
2000103#1,701
1999124#1,414
1998113#1,499
1997111#1,473
199698#1,581
1995121#1,352
1994131#1,290
1993141#1,226
1992152#1,154
1991145#1,191
1990164#1,075
1989144#1,142
1988177#949
1987160#983
1986170#933
1985189#853
1984181#848
1983208#766
1982218#759
1981273#646
1980307#604
1979293#607
1978245#655
1977266#630
1976262#605
1975284#583
1974276#574
1973263#599
1972302#551
1971116#1,041
1970131#966
1969183#748
1968115#966
1967159#788
196668#1,312
196569#1,302
196457#1,497
196384#1,188
196258#1,456
196126#2,358
196028#2,195
195922#2,457
195814#3,231
19577#4,917

Names like Kami

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Kiki, Remi, Suki, Kiyomi, Rumi, Zuri, Kyomi, Miri, Dakota, Tori, Lumi, Heidi

Other spellings of Kami

Cami, Cammie, Camie, Kammie, Kamie

Names related to Kami

Kamiya, Kamiah, Kaomi, Kayomi, Kamia, Kamyia

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Kami: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kami, updated 20 October 2026.