unisex name
Kamari
kuh-MAR-ee
- Origin Arabic
- Gender Unisex
- Letters 6
- Popularity Top 1000 (US)
- Births on record 19,024
the United States
#391
2025 births
Kamari is a unisex name usually connected to the Arabic qamar, the moon, and also used as a Swahili name and as a modern American coinage. The three lines are not related, and sources rarely distinguish between them.
- Kamari is a name of Arabic origin.
- Peaked in 2023, when 1,229 babies were given the name.
- It has been rising over the past decade.
- Today about 1 in 3,270 babies in the United States is given this name.
- First appears in US birth records in 1978.
Kamari over time
Births per decade in the United States, 1970s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.
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| Decade | Births |
|---|---|
| 1970s | 15 |
| 1980s | 50 |
| 1990s | 636 |
| 2000s | 4,429 |
| 2010s | 6,518 |
| 2020s (to 2025) | 6,742 |
What Kamari means
Kamari is most often given as moon-like, through the Arabic qamar. In Swahili use it is read as beauty like the moon, which draws on the same Arabic loanword, while much American use is a modern formation on a fashionable sound.
Where Kamari comes from
Kamari rests on the Arabic qamar, the moon, an ancient Semitic root that gives Qamar and Qamari as names across the Arabic-speaking world and entered Swahili along with a great deal of other Arabic vocabulary through centuries of Indian Ocean trade. That accounts for the Swahili reading. A third strand is simply American: the name appears in our records from 1978 and rose through the 2010s alongside Kamryn, Amari and Jamari, a family of coinages built on shared sounds rather than shared roots. All three are in use and the name carries whichever the family intends.
Kamari in use
Kamari first appears in our records in 1978 and peaked in 2023.
How popular is Kamari?
In 2025, Kamari was given to 1,014 babies in the United States, ranking #391 that year. It is a well-established, commonly used name.
Where Kamari is used
US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.
Names that peaked alongside Kamari
These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.
Parents who like Kamari also like
Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Kamari over the last century — the same taste, a different name.
1 nickname for Kamari
Each one is a name in its own right — the figure underneath is how it is doing today, so you can see which short forms are rising and which have faded.
Kamari in other languages
The same name as it is spelled elsewhere — not shortenings, and not different names that merely sound alike. Each one has its own record here.
Sibling names for Kamari
Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Kamari — the two things that make a sibling set grate.
Common questions about Kamari
What does the name Kamari mean?
Usually moon-like, through the Arabic qamar. It is also used in Swahili, which borrowed the same word, and as a modern American coinage.
Is Kamari a boy's or a girl's name?
Both, and used fairly evenly.
How do you pronounce Kamari?
kuh-MAR-ee, with the stress on the middle syllable.
How popular is the name Kamari?
In 2025, Kamari was given to 1,014 babies in the United States, ranking #391 that year. It is a well-established, commonly used name.
When was Kamari most popular?
Kamari peaked in 2023, when 1,229 babies were given the name. It has been rising over the past decade.
What are the nicknames for Kamari?
Kamari is usually shortened to Kam.
Is Kamari a good name?
That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Kamari currently ranks #391 in the United States. It has been rising over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.