Camari
Feminine
Camari is given to both — 1,121 girls and 1,653 boys since 1880. See Camari as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Camari joins a Cam- opening to the -ari ending, and both are current American parts rather than inherited words.
How old is the name Camari?
Camari first appears in US birth records in 1993 — 32 years ago. The typical Camari is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,100 people named Camari are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Camari most popular?
Camari peaked in 2021, reaching #2558 nationally. Today it ranks #4546, 1,988 places below that high. See the whole 2021 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Camari
Ours, offered as ours. The -ari ending has become one of the most productive in current American naming — Amari, Kamari, Jamari, Camari, Zamari — and it spread through the same process that produced the -aden and -aylen families: one name catches, the ending detaches, and it recombines with every available opening. Watching an ending become productive is watching a language make a new suffix in real time.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source is established. Cam- comes from Cameron, a Scottish surname meaning crooked nose, or from Camila. The -ari ending appears across Amari, Jamari and Kamari without independent meaning.
Pronouncing Camari
kuh-MAR-ee
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. There is little variation.
Nicknames for Camari
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1993
- Most girls named
- 202168 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2558reached in 2021
- Change vs 2024
- −16.7%30 in 2025, from 36
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Camari in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Kamari in English — spelling variant
- Amari in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Ohio, Mississippi.
Camaris among us
people named Camari are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 53,576 born in 2025 was named Camari
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Camari
- #4546
- Camari on the 2025 chart
- #677
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Camari went to 30 girls in 2025, but Kamari, Khamari and Kamarii and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 5 spellings went to 291, which makes it the 677th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,869 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 5,523 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 53,576 for Camari itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Alexas test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Camari's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Alexas climbed just as high around 1996, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Alexas's path sketches the road Camari is walking now.
Camari sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Camari is headed
Camari is easing off slowly — about 23% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Camari beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Camari in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Cam, Cami and Mari are all ready short forms in current use.
- Six letters and three syllables, quick to write.
- It fits comfortably beside the most common names of its generation.
- Camari, Kamari and Camaree are all in use and get confused.
- It is used for both sexes, so forms may guess wrong.
- There is no documented meaning.
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Frequently asked
- How many Camaris are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Camari are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Camari?
- Camari is one of 5 recorded spellings. Kamari is the more common one — 203 births in 2025 against 30 for Camari.
- How popular is the name Camari in 2025?
- Camari ranks #4546 among US girl names in 2025, with 30 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Camari?
- About 1 in every 53,576 US girls born in 2025 was named Camari — 30 in all.
- Will my child share the name Camari with classmates?
- Camari will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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