Kamarion
Masculine
Kamarion is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 2,677 boys against 6 girls since 1880.
Kamarion belongs to one of the most inventive corners of American naming: the family of names built from a short opening syllable and the long, rolling -marion ending, alongside Jamarion, Damarion and Amarion. It is a four-beat name that ends in a soft vowel run, and it shortens cleanly to Kam — a nickname already at home in English through Cameron and Kameron.
How old is the name Kamarion?
Kamarion first appears in US birth records in 1998 — 27 years ago. The typical Kamarion is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 2,700 people named Kamarion are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kamarion most popular?
Kamarion peaked in 2009, reaching #1091 nationally. Today it ranks #1477, 386 places below that high. See the whole 2009 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Kamarion
Kamarion is a modern American formation rather than an inherited name, and it appears in the records only in recent decades. It sits inside a well-documented pattern of American name-building — a prefixed syllable joined to a familiar name element, which produced Jamarion, Damarion, Demarion and Kamarion within the same span of years. The tail of the name, -marion, reaches back through Marion to the French Marie, a line with centuries behind it; the front of the name is newer, part of a living tradition of coining names that sound like family without copying one.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No settled meaning has been established for Kamarion, and that is normal for a name assembled from sound rather than translated from a word. What is documented are its parts: the Ka- opening that also gives Kamari and Kamaria, and the -marion ending that echoes Marion, itself a medieval French diminutive of Marie carried into English and used in the United States for both boys and girls.
Pronouncing Kamarion
kuh-MAIR-ee-un
Stress falls on the second syllable, matching the rest of the -marion family. Some families say kuh-MAR-ee-on with a flatter middle vowel, and both are accepted; there is no single official form.
Nicknames for Kamarion
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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
- 1998
- Most boys named
- 2009170 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1091reached in 2009
- Change vs 2024
- −15.5%120 in 2025, from 142
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.
Kamarion in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Illinois, Georgia, Mississippi.
Kamarions among us
people named Kamarion are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 14,234 born in 2025 was named Kamarion
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kamarion
- #1477
- Kamarion on the 2025 chart
- #777
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kamarion went to 120 boys in 2025, but Camarion, Khamarion and Kamarrion are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 151, which makes it the 777th most-given boys’ name of the year — 700 places above the chart.
- Kamarion120
- Camarion17
- Khamarion9
- Kamarrion5
About 1 boy in 11,312 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 14,234 for Kamarion 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 Jacque test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kamarion's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jacque climbed just as high around 1971, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jacque's path sketches the road Kamarion is walking now.
Kamarion 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 Kamarion is headed
Kamarion looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 21% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
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.
Kamarion beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kamarion in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Spells the way it sounds — a reader meeting it for the first time can usually get close on the first try.
- Comes with a ready-made short form in Kam, already familiar to English speakers through Cameron and Kameron.
- Sounds like a whole family of established names, so it registers as familiar even to people who have never met one.
- Long enough to sit comfortably beside short surnames, with four distinct beats.
- The spelling competes with several close neighbors — Kamerion, Camarion, Kamarian, Kamaryon — so expect to spell it out on forms and over the phone for life.
- Names in this family arrived recently and together, which means Kamarion carries a clear generational stamp: it reads as belonging to the last couple of decades rather than to any earlier era.
- No settled meaning exists, so if a meaning is what you want to hand your child, you will be handing them the story of how the name was made instead.
- It is rare enough that most classmates and teachers will be meeting it for the first time — which cuts both ways: no confusion with another child, but a lifetime of first-time pronunciations.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kamarions are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,700 people named Kamarion are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kamarion?
- Kamarion is the most-used spelling in US records — 120 of the 151 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Camarion, Khamarion and Kamarrion.
- How popular is the name Kamarion in 2025?
- Kamarion ranks #1477 among US boy names in 2025, with 120 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kamarion?
- About 1 in every 14,234 US boys born in 2025 was named Kamarion — 120 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kamarion with classmates?
- Kamarion will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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