Kami is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Kami is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 girls have been named Kami. In the SmartGenius ranking, Kami is #2,567 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Kami.
Kami is a quite familiar phenomenon. Before 1900, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. It took a while, but then, unexpectedly, Kami cried out for attention, reaching rank 533 in 1972. So, schoolkids of the late 19th century probably didn't have classmates named Kami and it has never reached the top 100 list in our statistics, but for a while it became more and more fashionable in the last century, which makes Kami really in tune with her generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Kami was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
64 babies were named Kami in 2022 - that's 1 in 2,745,035 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Kami ranked 2,392 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which first records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 7.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A, S and M are more common for girls' names.
With four letters, the name Kami is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 7.5% of all girls' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the girls' names that begin with a K, Karen is the most common.
If your name is Kami and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Kami, you can simply say:
Koala
Apple
Mouse
Igloo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Kami
Kami
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
K
A
M
I
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
K
A
M
I
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Kami sounds like this:
