Kemya
Feminine
Kemya is a twenty-first-century American name of two quick syllables. Its opening sound echoes Kemal, 'perfection', the name a teacher once gave the schoolboy who became the founder of modern Turkey.
How old is the name Kemya?
Kemya first appears in US birth records in 1998 — 27 years ago. The typical Kemya alive today was born around 2008, making them about 17 years old. About 600 people named Kemya are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kemya most popular?
Kemya peaked in 2009, reaching #3161 nationally. See the whole 2009 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Kemya
A boy called Mustafa in Ottoman Salonica was so good at mathematics that his teacher, also named Mustafa, gave him the extra name Kemal, 'perfection', to tell them apart; he became Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of the Turkish republic. Kemya was not built from that name; it came from the Kenya and Kimya sounds of its day. But its first syllable carries a word for something complete.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Kemya may be Kenya reshaped or a build on Kim, and nothing records which.
Pronouncing Kemya
KEM-yuh
Two syllables with the stress on the first.
Nicknames for Kemya
Limited
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
- 1998
- Most girls named
- 200953 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3161reached in 2009
- Change vs 2023
- 0.0%5 in 2024, from 5
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.
Kemyas among us
people named Kemya are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Kemya sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Short and distinctive.
- Rare, so a Kemya is unlikely to share her name.
- Easy to write.
- People will hear Kenya.
- Some will say kem-EE-uh.
- It has no documented meaning of its own.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kemyas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Kemya are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Kemya in 2025?
- Kemya is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Kemya with classmates?
- Kemya will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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