Kamika

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 5 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
5
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Kamika by the numbers

Kamika was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 41 babies in 1975, so it is a 1970s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Kamika

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Kamika. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Kamilaperfect; complete; a form of Kamil1,100 in the US (2017)
  • Kanikasmall; tiny3 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Kamiya138 in the US (2017)
  • Kamia56 in the US (2017)
  • Kamira30 in the US (2017)
  • Kamina7 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Kamika

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