Khamani
Masculine · “Peace”
Khamani is given to both — 755 boys and 408 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Khamani is built on a genuine word with a genuine history — Amani, which is Swahili for peace — and on a spelling habit that is entirely American. The kh at the front is written, not spoken, and the two facts belong in the same sentence.
How old is the name Khamani?
Khamani first appears in US birth records in 2003 — 22 years ago. The typical Khamani alive today was born around 2008, making them about 17 years old. About 700 people named Khamani are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Khamani most popular?
Khamani peaked in 2004, reaching #1246 nationally. Today it ranks #5399, 4,153 places below that high. See the whole 2004 chart.
Where it comes from
From amān to Khamani
Our story of Khamani
Swahili entered American naming deliberately and at a datable moment. From the late 1960s, families looking for names outside the European stock turned to East Africa, and Swahili was the language most available in print — Nia, Imani, Amani, Zuri, Jamila, Kwame, Ayanna. Kwanzaa, first celebrated in 1966, put seven Swahili words in front of a national audience every December. What followed over the next thirty years was not only adoption but elaboration: the words were taken as raw material and prefixes and spellings were applied to them, exactly as American naming does with every source it uses. Khamani is a late product of that process. Its Swahili half is real; its kh is a visual choice made in an English-speaking country; and its 2004 peak sits three decades downstream of the original borrowing.
Meaningscholars disagree
Peace, if from the Swahili Amani
Swahili amani means peace and comes from Arabic amān, safety or security; that reading is settled for Amani. Khamani is not a Swahili word and does not follow Swahili spelling. It appears in American records alongside Kamani, Kymani and Kamari, and the Ky-Mani of the Jamaican musician Ky-Mani Marley, born in 1976, is a separate documented formation. Which of these produced Khamani is not recoverable.
How the name formed
- amān
- Amani
- Khamani
Related forms: Amani · أمان
Pronouncing Khamani
kuh-MAH-nee
Three syllables, stress in the middle. The h is silent. Some families say KAH-mah-nee with the weight at the front, and the spelling supports both.
Nicknames for Khamani
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
- 2003
- Most boys named
- 2004121 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1246reached in 2004
- Change vs 2024
- +70.0%17 in 2025, from 10
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.
Khamani in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Amani in Swahili — related form
- أمان in Arabic — related form
Khamanis among us
people named Khamani are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 100,475 born in 2025 was named Khamani
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Khamani
- #5399
- Khamani on the 2025 chart
- #876
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Khamani went to 17 boys in 2025, but Kamani is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 52, which makes it the 876th most-given boys’ name of the year — 4,523 places above the chart.
- Kamani35
- Khamani17
About 1 boy in 32,848 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 100,475 for Khamani 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 Kenith test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Khamani's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Kenith climbed just as high around 1938, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Kenith's path sketches the road Khamani is walking now.
Khamani 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
Khamani beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Khamani in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Mani works as a short form and stands on its own.
- The vowels are open and the name is easy to say once heard.
- The Swahili word behind half of it has a settled and good meaning.
- Nobody will spell it correctly from hearing it.
- The kh suggests an origin the name does not have.
- Kamani, Khamani, Kymani and Kamari are four spellings of nearly one sound.
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Frequently asked
- How many Khamanis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Khamani are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Khamani?
- Khamani is one of 2 recorded spellings. Kamani is the more common one — 35 births in 2025 against 17 for Khamani.
- How popular is the name Khamani in 2025?
- Khamani ranks #5399 among US boy names in 2025, with 17 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Khamani?
- About 1 in every 100,475 US boys born in 2025 was named Khamani — 17 in all.
- Will my child share the name Khamani with classmates?
- Khamani will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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