Khamya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KAM-ya
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Khamya is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “desirable, lovely”. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Khamya mean?
Sanskrit: spelling of Kamya; Sanskrit kamya; in the US also Ka- + Mya
“desirable, lovely”
An Indian name from Sanskrit kamya 'desirable'; in the US it can also be a blend of Ka- and Mya.
Meaning borrowed from Kamya.
Is Khamya a girl's or a boy's name?
Khamya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Khamya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #10,913among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8about 1 in 200,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Khamya, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 27 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.
Half of all the girls named Khamya in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 92 girls in the US were given Khamya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,800, up from #10,913 for this spelling alone.
Khamya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,288 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,300 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,459 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,467 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,612 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,599 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,610 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,633 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,031 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,338 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,115 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,106 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,541 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,796 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,523 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,711 |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,886 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,763 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,401 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,181 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,095 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
Names like Khamya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Kaliyah Aaliyah Zaya Zainab Zaniyah Zaira Zayla Uma Hafsa Zya Siya
Other spellings of Khamya
Names related to Khamya
More Sanskrit names
Maya Bodhi Arya Lila Arjun Aarav Rohan Kali Aryan Opal Arjan Vihaan Aadhya Avyaan Ishaan Leena
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, “Khamya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/khamya, updated 20 October 2026.