Kamini
Kamini is a name with a single cultural origin: Hindi.
- Hindi
Meaning & Origin of Kamini
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Kamini is a name with a single cultural origin: Hindi.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Hindi
The Story of Kamini
Kamini first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1980, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1980: 6 births, good for #9,096 nationwide. Kamini last appeared in the published SSA data in 1988, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 27 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
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About the name Kamini
Kamini is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1980 and has accumulated 27 births in the dataset. Kamini's peak popularity came in 1980 when it ranked #9,096. Use the chart and map above to compare Kamini's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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