Kamauri
Masculine
Kamauri is given to both — 800 boys and 343 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Kamauri belongs to a large modern American family built on the -auri and -ari endings: Amari, Kamari, Jamauri, Kamauri. It is assembled rather than inherited, and the assembly is careful: four syllables, an open ending, and a hard opening consonant that keeps it from going soft.
How old is the name Kamauri?
Kamauri first appears in US birth records in 1999 — 26 years ago. The typical Kamauri alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 800 people named Kamauri are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kamauri most popular?
Kamauri peaked in 2009, reaching #1742 nationally. Today it ranks #5045, 3,303 places below that high. See the whole 2009 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Kamauri
One ending can carry a whole generation. The -ari and -auri close moved through American naming from the nineteen-nineties with real force: Amari first, then Kamari, Jamari, Damari and Kamauri, each one a small variation so that cousins and classmates could share a sound without sharing a name. The au spelling in this one is doing a specific job: it lengthens the vowel on the page and marks the name as a particular family's. That is a real design decision, made by ear and made well.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Not documented. Amari and Kamari, its nearest neighbors, have no established source themselves, though Arabic and Yoruba words are sometimes offered for them. The Ka- opening carries nothing and the -auri ending is an American spelling of a sound rather than an element with a sense.
Pronouncing Kamauri
kuh-MOR-ee
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Some families say kuh-MAH-ree instead, and the spelling supports both.
Nicknames for Kamauri
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
- 1999
- Most boys named
- 200988 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1742reached in 2009
- Change vs 2024
- −24.0%19 in 2025, from 25
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.
Kamauri in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Louisiana, Texas, Florida.
Kamauris among us
people named Kamauri are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 89,899 born in 2025 was named Kamauri
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 Jamichael test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kamauri's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jamichael climbed just as high around 1993, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jamichael's path sketches the road Kamauri is walking now.
Kamauri 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
Kamauri beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kamauri in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Kam works as a short form and is entirely familiar in English.
- The open ending carries well when the name is called across a room.
- Its sound family is large, so nobody has to be taught how to say it.
- Kamauri, Kamari and Kamori are all in use and near-identical in speech.
- Two pronunciations circulate and the spelling settles neither.
- There is no documented history behind it, only a pattern.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kamauris are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Kamauri are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Kamauri in 2025?
- Kamauri ranks #5045 among US boy names in 2025, with 19 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kamauri?
- About 1 in every 89,899 US boys born in 2025 was named Kamauri — 19 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kamauri with classmates?
- Kamauri will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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