Kamari
Masculine · “moon”
Kamari is given to both — 12,545 boys and 5,845 girls since 1880. See Kamari as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Kamari sits in the same sound-family as Amari, Jamari and Damari — three light syllables with the stress in the middle, easy to say the first time you see it. Behind it stands one of the oldest and most-traveled words in naming: Arabic qamar, the moon, which reached the East African coast and gave Swahili speakers Kamaria. It has been on American record since the late 1970s and has held its ground ever since.
How old is the name Kamari?
Kamari first appears in US birth records in 1978 — 47 years ago. The typical Kamari is a kid of about 8 — this name's wave is very recent. About 12,500 people named Kamari are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kamari most popular?
Kamari peaked in 2023, reaching #366 nationally. Today it ranks #391, 25 places below that high. See the whole 2023 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Qamar to Kamari
The story of Kamari
The Arabic word qamar, 'moon,' has been a naming element for centuries, carried by trade and Islam down the Swahili coast, where it settled into the feminine name Kamaria. Kamari appears in American records from the late 1970s onward, arriving in the same decades as Amari, Jamari and Damari — a whole cluster of names sharing that three-beat shape and open ending. Whether each parent reached it through the older Arabic and Swahili line or through the sound of its American cousins is not something the record can separate. Both roads are real, and the name today carries traces of each.
Meaningscholars disagree
'moon,' if read through Arabic qamar — though the name may equally be a modern American formation
Two serious readings compete. One traces Kamari to Arabic qamar, 'moon,' by way of the Swahili name Kamaria, long used along the East African coast. The other treats it as a twentieth-century American coinage built on the rhyming pattern of Amari, Jamari and Damari, where the sound came first and the meaning was attached afterward. There is also a village and black-sand beach called Kamari on the Greek island of Santorini, unrelated to either line.
How the name formed
- Qamar
- Kamaria
- Kamari
Related forms: Qamar · Kamaria · Kamer · Ghamar
Pronouncing Kamari
kuh-MAR-ee
Stress falls on the middle syllable. The first vowel varies between a soft 'kuh' and a fuller 'kah' depending on the speaker; both are widely heard and neither needs correcting.
Nicknames for Kamari
High
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
- 1978
- Most boys named
- 2022886 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #366reached in 2023
- Change vs 2024
- −3.6%811 in 2025, from 841
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.
Kamari in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Qamar in Arabic — related form
- Kamaria in Swahili — related form
- Kamer in Turkish — related form
- Ghamar in Persian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, Texas, Georgia.
Kamaris among us
people named Kamari are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 2,106 born in 2025 was named Kamari
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kamari
- #391
- Kamari on the 2025 chart
- #312
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kamari went to 811 boys in 2025, but Khamari, Camari and Kamarii and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 6 spellings went to 1,054, which makes it the 312th most-given boys’ name of the year — 79 places above the chart.
and 1 rarer spelling.
About 1 boy in 1,621 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 2,106 for Kamari 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 Mackenzie test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kamari's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Mackenzie climbed just as high around 1994, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Mackenzie's path sketches the road Kamari is walking now.
Kamari 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 Kamari is headed
Kamari should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
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.
Kamari beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kamari in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Spelled the way it sounds — most English speakers get it right on a first reading, without a spelling lesson.
- Sits inside a recognized group of names (Amari, Jamari, Damari), so the rhythm is already familiar to American ears.
- Has ready-made short forms: Kam, Kami, Mari — none of them invented on the spot.
- Connects to Arabic qamar and Swahili Kamaria, words in daily use far beyond the US.
- Works for a girl or a boy without needing a change of spelling.
- Most Kamaris in the US are boys, but a real minority are girls. For a girl, expect occasional assumptions on paper — forms, rosters, class lists — that a quick correction handles.
- The meaning is not settled. If you want a name whose translation you can state in one confident sentence, this one will resist that.
- Near neighbors invite mix-ups: Kamryn, Camari, Kimari, Kamaria. Nothing serious, but the name will be read back to you wrongly now and then.
- Its wave is very recent, so nearly everyone carrying it is still young. There are few adult Kamaris to point to — which also means the name arrives without anyone else's shadow on it.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kamaris are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 12,500 people named Kamari are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kamari?
- Kamari is the most-used spelling in US records — 811 of the 1,054 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Khamari, Camari, Kamarii and Kamarri.
- How popular is the name Kamari in 2025?
- Kamari ranks #391 among US boy names in 2025, with 811 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kamari?
- About 1 in every 2,106 US boys born in 2025 was named Kamari — 811 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kamari with classmates?
- Kamari will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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