As an alternate transcription of the Arabic name Kamila, Kamilah also means ‘perfect’ or ‘complete’. These names are the female equivalents of Kamil.
Kamilah is a female first name.
The name Kamilah isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Kamilah ranks 921. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Kamilah. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Kamilah.
Kamilah is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Kamilah cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #737 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2019. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Kamilah, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Kamilah seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Kamilah was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
266 babies were named Kamilah in 2022 - that's 1 in 557,263 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Kamilah ranked 891 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
You may not know anyone named Kamilah, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 31 states are home to women and girls named Kamilah. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Kamilah living in one state or another. If your name is Kamilah and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In California, which has the most people named Kamilah relative to the population, you still have to ask 12,164 women and girls their names before you hear Kamilah as an answer just once.
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 seven letters, the name Kamilah has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. 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 Kamilah 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 Kamilah, you can simply say:
Koala
Apple
Mouse
Igloo
Lion
Apple
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Kamilah
Kamilah
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
K
A
M
I
L
A
H
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
L
A
H
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. Kamilah sounds like this:
