Given name
Kamalei
“child”·“a lei”
Kamalei is a feminine given name from Hawaiian. It is used in Hawaiian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Kamalei is built from elements meaning “child” and “a lei”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1995. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kamalei through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 147
- 30 boys · 117 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 20 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 14 in 2008. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 210 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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