Kemet
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- KEH-met
- US rank, 2025
- #9,710 for boys
Kemet is a boys' name, meaning “black land”. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).
What does Kemet mean?
Ancient Egyptian name for Egypt
“black land”
Ancient Egyptians called their country Kemet, after the dark fertile soil left by the Nile floods.
Is Kemet a girl's or a boy's name?
Kemet is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kemet in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,710th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 240,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Kemet, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,029th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 19 boys. It first appears in the records in 1994.
It has been given to fewer boys each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer boys named Kemet than any year since 2011.
Half of all the boys named Kemet in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Kemet in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,710 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,307 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,284 |
| 2022 | 19 | #5,015 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,771 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,029 |
| 2019 | 14 | #6,099 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,613 |
| 2017 | 15 | #5,784 |
| 2016 | 19 | #4,941 |
| 2015 | 13 | #6,320 |
| 2014 | 8 | #8,775 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,532 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,044 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 5 | #10,548 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 5 | #8,794 |
Names like Kemet
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kairo, Kaizen, Chozen, Kobe, Kenzo, Kyaire, Tadeo, Kashton, Onyx, Kasai, Koda, Kylo
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, “Kemet: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kemet, updated 20 October 2026.