Kamira
Feminine
Kamira is a modern American name with real neighbors in Arabic and Sanskrit, and no documented descent from either.
How old is the name Kamira?
Kamira first appears in US birth records in 1983 — 42 years ago. The typical Kamira alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 1,000 people named Kamira are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kamira most popular?
Kamira peaked in 2009, reaching #2643 nationally. Today it ranks #3903, 1,260 places below that high. See the whole 2009 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Kamira
Ours, offered as ours. Arabic qamar, the moon, is one of the more productive words in Middle Eastern naming — it gives Qamar, Kamaria in Swahili, and a family of related forms — and it sits close to this sound without being it. American naming, meanwhile, has been building on -mira for decades: Samira, Kamira, Damira, Zamira. The moon is a neighbor rather than a parent, and it is worth pointing at either way.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source is established. Arabic qamar is the moon and gives Qamira and Kamaria in some traditions. Sanskrit has no direct match. The Ka- opening and -mira ending of modern American naming, shared with Kamora and Samira, are the likelier source.
Pronouncing Kamira
kah-MEER-ah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Some families say KAM-ih-rah.
Nicknames for Kamira
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
- 1983
- Most girls named
- 200969 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2643reached in 2009
- Change vs 2024
- −17.8%37 in 2025, from 45
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.
Kamira in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Qamar in Arabic — related form
- Kamaria in Swahili — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Georgia, California, Illinois.
Kamiras among us
people named Kamira are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 43,440 born in 2025 was named Kamira
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kamira
- #3903
- Kamira on the 2025 chart
- #851
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kamira went to 37 girls in 2025, but Kamyra, Kamirah and Khamyra and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 7 spellings went to 109, which makes it the 851st most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,052 places above the chart.
- Kamira37
- Kamyra21
- Kamirah17
- Khamyra13
- Kamyrah9
- Camira7
- Camyra5
About 1 girl in 14,746 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 43,440 for Kamira 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 Esperansa test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kamira's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Esperansa climbed just as high around 1932, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Esperansa's path sketches the road Kamira is walking now.
Kamira 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 Kamira is headed
Kamira 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.
Kamira beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kamira in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Mira is a complete short form with lives in several languages.
- Open vowels make it easy to say in most languages.
- Six letters and three syllables, manageable to write.
- The stress is unsettled between the first and second syllables.
- Kamira, Kamiya and Samira are all close and get confused.
- There is no documented meaning, only a construction.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kamiras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Kamira are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kamira?
- Kamira is the most-used spelling in US records — 37 of the 109 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Kamyra, Kamirah, Khamyra, Kamyrah, Camira and Camyra.
- How popular is the name Kamira in 2025?
- Kamira ranks #3903 among US girl names in 2025, with 37 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kamira?
- About 1 in every 43,440 US girls born in 2025 was named Kamira — 37 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kamira with classmates?
- Kamira will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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