Kamali
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Shona (Zimbabwe): spirit who protects babies from death
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kamali is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 892K(measured from records)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 138K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 165K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 182 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 138K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Shona (Zimbabwe): spirit who protects babies from death
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kamali counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 646K | — | Kamali | 5 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 165K | listed | Kamali | 16 |
| US United States | 373 | 1 in 892K | 718 | Kamali | 182 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 879K | — | Kamali | 63 |
| MA Morocco | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 138K | — | Kamali | 40 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 228K | 1 | Kamali | 10 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 332K | — | Kamali | 44 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 494K | — | Kamali | 14 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the african-names-stewart-1993 register; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kamali is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
adjectival derivative of Kamal, meaning ‘pertaining to perfection’ or ‘descended from someone called Kamal’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
» Renuka (P)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Ángel de los recién nacidos
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Espíritu guía
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
perfection
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kamali Minterb. 1983USAmerican actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 45 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 226 | #25,436 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 147 | #25,436 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 6 | — |
| TZ Tanzania | INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results | 2020 | 1 | #29 |
| NG Nigeria | African Names (Julia Stewart, 1993) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kamali mean, and where does it come from?
- Shona (Zimbabwe): spirit who protects babies from death Recorded by African Names.
- Is Kamali a male or female name?
- Kamali is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Kamali have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Kamali in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kamali.
- How common is the name Kamali?
- In the United States, the national register counted 373 people named Kamali in 2020, about 1 in 892 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kamaliThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kamali”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.