Kamyra
Feminine
Kamyra is a name whose distinguishing feature is a single letter. Swap the y for an i and you have Kamira; the y is what makes it this name and not that one. That substitution — y where i would do — is one of the most-used individuating devices in American naming, and it accounts for Alyssa, Kaylyn, Brynn, Jazmyn and Kamyra alike. Its peak is 2008.
How old is the name Kamyra?
Kamyra first appears in US birth records in 1993 — 32 years ago. The typical Kamyra alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 900 people named Kamyra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kamyra most popular?
Kamyra peaked in 2008, reaching #3017 nationally. Today it ranks #5722, 2,705 places below that high. See the whole 2008 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Kamira to Kamyra
Our story of Kamyra
The letter y has done more work in American naming over the last forty years than any other single character. It is phonetically idle in most of these positions — Kamyra and Kamira are said identically — but it is not decorative in the way an added h is. It signals something. A y in the middle of a name reads as deliberate: it tells a stranger that a choice was made, that this spelling belongs to this bearer and not to the several others who share the sound. Parents reach for it precisely because it costs nothing in pronunciation and gains everything in ownership. Kamyra is that trade made once. The Ka- front supplies familiarity, the -yra supplies distinction, and the pronunciation is exactly what anyone would guess. It is an efficient piece of design, and reading it as a spelling error misses what it is doing.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No documented source. Kamyra is a modern American formation: a Ka- front, one of the most productive first elements in late-twentieth-century naming, joined to a -mira or -myra ending. Myra itself has a real if disputed history, coined by a seventeenth-century English poet, but there is no evidence that Kamyra descends from it rather than merely resembling it. The glosses offered online are unattributable. What can be described accurately is the construction and the letter swap that distinguishes it.
How the name formed
- Kamira
- Kamyra
Pronouncing Kamyra
kuh-MY-ruh
Three syllables, stress in the middle, with the long i of mire. A second saying, kuh-MEER-uh, treats the y as a long e and is also heard. The spelling genuinely does not settle which, so this is a name that needs saying aloud once.
Nicknames for Kamyra
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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
- 1993
- Most girls named
- 200857 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3017reached in 2008
- Change vs 2024
- −22.2%21 in 2025, from 27
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.
Kamyra in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: North Carolina, Michigan, Texas.
Kamyras among us
people named Kamyra are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 76,537 born in 2025 was named Kamyra
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kamyra
- #5722
- Kamyra on the 2025 chart
- #851
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kamyra went to 21 girls in 2025, but Kamira, 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 — 4,871 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 76,537 for Kamyra 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 Falyn test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kamyra's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Falyn climbed just as high around 1982, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Falyn's path sketches the road Kamyra is walking now.
Kamyra 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
Kamyra beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kamyra in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Kam is a current, easy short form that needs no explanation.
- Myra is available as a complete traditional name inside it.
- The Ka- front makes it immediately placeable even though the whole is rare.
- Two pronunciations circulate, -MY- and -MEER-, and the spelling does not decide.
- The y will be written as an i by almost everyone taking it down from speech.
- There is no established meaning to offer when asked.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kamyras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Kamyra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kamyra?
- Kamyra is one of 7 recorded spellings. Kamira is the more common one — 37 births in 2025 against 21 for Kamyra.
- How popular is the name Kamyra in 2025?
- Kamyra ranks #5722 among US girl names in 2025, with 21 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kamyra?
- About 1 in every 76,537 US girls born in 2025 was named Kamyra — 21 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kamyra with classmates?
- Kamyra will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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