Kamarie
Feminine
Kamarie is given to both — 561 girls and 248 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
A large part of American naming works by prefix. Ka-, La-, Sha-, De- and Ja- attach to a base and make something new, and the system is regular enough that speakers can invent inside it and be understood. Kamarie is Ka- plus Marie, and the machinery is older and steadier than the name.
How old is the name Kamarie?
Kamarie first appears in US birth records in 1976 — 49 years ago. The typical Kamarie alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 600 people named Kamarie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kamarie most popular?
Kamarie peaked in 2008, reaching #4179 nationally. Today it ranks #10917, 6,738 places below that high. See the whole 2008 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Kamarie
Prefix naming has been documented in American English for over a century and it follows rules: the prefix is unstressed, the base keeps its own stress, and the join is smooth enough that the result sounds like one word rather than two. That is why LaToya, DeAndre, Shaniqua and Kamarie all scan the same way. It is a productive system in the linguist's sense — speakers who have never heard a particular name can still say it correctly on sight, because the pattern tells them where the weight falls. What it does not supply is meaning, and pretending otherwise would be inventing an etymology for a name that has an honest history instead.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The compound has no meaning. Marie, the base, is French for Mary, from Hebrew Miryam, whose own meaning has never been settled. The prefix Ka- carries no sense of its own — it is a building block, not a word — so the name means what any assembled name means, which is nothing in particular and whatever the family attaches to it.
Pronouncing Kamarie
kuh-MAR-ee
Three syllables, stress in the middle, with the prefix unstressed. That is how the whole prefix family is said, so a stranger who has never seen the name will usually get it right.
Nicknames for Kamarie
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
- 1976
- Most girls named
- 200837 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #4179reached in 2008
- Change vs 2024
- −52.9%8 in 2025, from 17
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.
Kamaries among us
people named Kamarie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 200,908 born in 2025 was named Kamarie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Darlen test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kamarie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Darlen climbed just as high around 1936, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Darlen's path sketches the road Kamarie is walking now.
Kamarie 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
Kamarie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kamarie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The prefix pattern is regular, so people say it correctly on first sight far more often than they do most rare names.
- Kam works immediately as a short form and serves either child.
- Three syllables with a clean rhythm and no cluster to trip over.
- The ending looks like Marie and reads as feminine, while the name is given more often to boys — the spelling and the usage pull in opposite directions.
- Kamari without the e is commoner, and this spelling will be corrected toward it.
- There is no meaning to hand a child, and the honest answer is that it was chosen for its sound.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kamaries are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Kamarie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Kamarie in 2025?
- Kamarie ranks #10917 among US girl names in 2025, with 8 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kamarie?
- About 1 in every 200,908 US girls born in 2025 was named Kamarie — 8 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kamarie with classmates?
- Kamarie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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