Kamoni
Feminine
Kamoni is given to both — 549 girls and 280 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Kamoni belongs to the American family of names built on a Ka- opening and an -oni ending, and it stands close to Amani, the Swahili word for peace.
How old is the name Kamoni?
Kamoni first appears in US birth records in 2001 — 24 years ago. The typical Kamoni is a kid of about 7 — this name's wave is very recent. About 500 people named Kamoni are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kamoni most popular?
Kamoni peaked in 2020, reaching #3399 nationally. Today it ranks #3577, 178 places below that high. See the whole 2020 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Kamoni
Ours, offered as ours. Swahili amani means peace and came into the language from Arabic along with much of the coastal vocabulary; it has been used as a name across East Africa and, since the 1970s, by African-American families choosing Swahili names. Kamoni sits close to it. Whether that is a variant or a coincidence is not recorded, and the neighbor is a good one to stand beside — better, at any rate, than an invented gloss.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source language is established. The construction is documented: a Ka- opening shared with Kamari, Kamiya and Kamaria in American records, and an -oni ending shared with Amoni and Simoni. Swahili amani, peace, is a neighbor rather than a confirmed source.
Pronouncing Kamoni
kuh-MOH-nee
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Some families say KAM-oh-nee.
Nicknames for Kamoni
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
- 2001
- Most girls named
- 202045 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3399reached in 2020
- Change vs 2024
- 0.0%42 in 2025, from 42
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.
Kamoni in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Amani in Swahili — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, North Carolina, Georgia.
Kamonis among us
people named Kamoni are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 38,268 born in 2025 was named Kamoni
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kamoni
- #3577
- Kamoni on the 2025 chart
- #898
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kamoni went to 42 girls in 2025, but Camoni, Khamoni and Kamonii are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 62, which makes it the 898th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,679 places above the chart.
- Kamoni42
- Camoni9
- Khamoni6
- Kamonii5
About 1 girl in 25,924 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 38,268 for Kamoni 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 Maddalena test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kamoni's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Maddalena climbed just as high around 1966, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Maddalena's path sketches the road Kamoni is walking now.
Kamoni 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 Kamoni is headed
Kamoni 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.
Kamoni beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kamoni in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Kam and Moni are both usable short forms.
- Open vowels make it easy to say in most languages.
- It works for a girl or a boy, which is useful before a birth.
- The stress is unsettled between the first and second syllables.
- Kamoni, Kamani and Kamonie are all in use and none is dominant.
- There is no documented meaning, only a construction.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kamonis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Kamoni are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kamoni?
- Kamoni is the most-used spelling in US records — 42 of the 62 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Camoni, Khamoni and Kamonii.
- How popular is the name Kamoni in 2025?
- Kamoni ranks #3577 among US girl names in 2025, with 42 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kamoni?
- About 1 in every 38,268 US girls born in 2025 was named Kamoni — 42 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kamoni with classmates?
- Kamoni will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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