Kymani
Feminine · “peace”
Kymani is given to both — 1,099 girls and 4,329 boys since 1880. See Kymani as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Kymani is a Jamaican name of the reggae generation, and its second half is a real Swahili word: amani, peace.
How old is the name Kymani?
Kymani first appears in US birth records in 1995 — 30 years ago. The typical Kymani alive today was born around 2012, making them about 13 years old. About 1,100 people named Kymani are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kymani most popular?
Kymani peaked in 2008, reaching #2184 nationally. Today it ranks #3832, 1,648 places below that high. See the whole 2008 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Kymani
Ours, offered as ours. Jamaican naming since the 1970s has drawn deliberately on East African vocabulary — Swahili words for peace, unity and freedom — as part of a broader turn toward African identity, and amani is one of the most-used of them. Kymani joins it to a Ky- opening that is Jamaican rather than Swahili. That is a name made from two places on purpose, which is a different thing from a name made from two syllables.
Meaningscholars disagree
peace
The -mani half is generally read as Swahili amani, peace, which is documented and borrowed from Arabic aman. The Ky- opening has no established source. The compound belongs to Jamaican naming of the later twentieth century.
Pronouncing Kymani
ky-MAH-nee
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. There is little variation.
Nicknames for Kymani
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
- 1995
- Most girls named
- 200891 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2184reached in 2008
- Change vs 2024
- +5.6%38 in 2025, from 36
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.
Kymani in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Amani in Swahili — related form
- Aman in Arabic — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, North Carolina, Texas.
Kymanis among us
people named Kymani are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 42,297 born in 2025 was named Kymani
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kymani
- #3832
- Kymani on the 2025 chart
- #887
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kymani went to 38 girls in 2025, but Kimani is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 73, which makes it the 887th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,945 places above the chart.
- Kymani38
- Kimani35
About 1 girl in 22,017 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 42,297 for Kymani 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 Darilyn test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kymani's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Darilyn climbed just as high around 1950, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Darilyn's path sketches the road Kymani is walking now.
Kymani 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 Kymani is headed
Kymani 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.
Kymani beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kymani in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Amani, peace, is genuinely there in the second half.
- Mani is a complete short form with lives in several languages.
- Open vowels make it easy to say in most languages.
- It is used for both sexes and more often for boys, so forms may guess wrong.
- Kymani, Kimani and Kymanni are all in use and none is dominant.
- The Ky- opening has no documented meaning.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kymanis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Kymani are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kymani?
- Kymani is the most-used spelling in US records — 38 of the 73 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Kimani.
- How popular is the name Kymani in 2025?
- Kymani ranks #3832 among US girl names in 2025, with 38 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kymani?
- About 1 in every 42,297 US girls born in 2025 was named Kymani — 38 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kymani with classmates?
- Kymani will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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