Kamilah
Feminine · “complete”
Kamilah is complete in Arabic — kamil, perfect in the sense of lacking nothing, which is a different idea from flawless.
How old is the name Kamilah?
Kamilah first appears in US birth records in 1971 — 54 years ago. The typical Kamilah alive today was born around 2012, making them about 13 years old. About 6,400 people named Kamilah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kamilah most popular?
Kamilah peaked in 2019, reaching #805 nationally. Today it ranks #2017, 1,212 places below that high. See the whole 2019 chart.
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Where it comes from
From kamil to Kamilah
The story of Kamilah
Kamil and Kamilah are ordinary Arabic given names built on a root that runs through the language — kamal is perfection, takmil is completion. The similar-sounding Latin Camilla comes from a Roman word for a temple attendant and is entirely separate. Kamilah appears in American records in current use.
Meaning
complete, perfect
From the Arabic kamilah, the feminine of kamil, from the root k-m-l, 'to be complete' or 'whole'. The sense is wholeness rather than the absence of fault. It is unrelated to the Latin Camilla, which sounds similar by coincidence. The Arabic is ordinary and undisputed.
How the name formed
- kamil
- kamilah
- Kamilah
Related forms: كاملة · Kamila · Kamile
Pronouncing Kamilah
kah-MEE-lah
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Arabic gives the first vowel a longer value.
Nicknames for Kamilah
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
- 1971
- Most girls named
- 2019341 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #805reached in 2019
- Change vs 2024
- −38.2%94 in 2025, from 152
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.
Kamilah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- كاملة in Arabic — transliteration
- Kamila in English — spelling variant
- Kamile in Turkish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Kamilahs among us
people named Kamilah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 17,099 born in 2025 was named Kamilah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kamilah
- #2017
- Kamilah on the 2025 chart
- #12
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kamilah went to 94 girls in 2025, but Camila, Kamila and Camilla and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 10 spellings went to 8,592, which makes it the 12th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,005 places above the chart.
and 5 rarer spellings.
About 1 girl in 187 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 17,099 for Kamilah 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 Laurette test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kamilah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Laurette climbed just as high around 1904, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Laurette's path sketches the road Kamilah is walking now.
Kamilah 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 Kamilah is headed
Kamilah is easing off slowly — about 24% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low 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.
Kamilah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kamilah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The completeness meaning is subtler and better than 'perfect' suggests.
- Kami and Mila are two short forms, both with real currency.
- Three syllables of open vowels, which carries unusually well.
- Camilla and Kamila are close in sound but unrelated in origin.
- Several transliterations are in circulation.
- It reads as specifically Arabic.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kamilahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 6,400 people named Kamilah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kamilah?
- Kamilah is one of 5 recorded spellings. Camila is the more common one — 6,591 births in 2025 against 94 for Kamilah.
- How popular is the name Kamilah in 2025?
- Kamilah ranks #2017 among US girl names in 2025, with 94 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kamilah?
- About 1 in every 17,099 US girls born in 2025 was named Kamilah — 94 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kamilah with classmates?
- Kamilah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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