Kami Surname
Approximately 387,261 people bear this surname
Kami Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nepal | 329,262 | 1:86 | 12 |
| India | 24,000 | 1:31,961 | 2,333 |
| Japan | 16,277 | 1:7,854 | 1,144 |
| Iran | 3,676 | 1:20,888 | 2,664 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1,881 | 1:4,335 | 243 |
| Bhutan | 1,825 | 1:338 | 58 |
| Indonesia | 1,800 | 1:73,472 | 7,886 |
| Algeria | 1,094 | 1:35,312 | 6,414 |
| DR Congo | 903 | 1:81,816 | 9,431 |
| Qatar | 743 | 1:3,174 | 304 |
| Benin | 740 | 1:13,967 | 1,905 |
| Chad | 674 | 1:20,166 | 2,465 |
| Morocco | 443 | 1:77,824 | 13,257 |
| Kazakhstan | 439 | 1:40,279 | 5,315 |
| Malaysia | 432 | 1:68,274 | 5,006 |
| Cameroon | 426 | 1:48,754 | 6,377 |
| Ivory Coast | 306 | 1:75,396 | 4,165 |
| United States | 281 | 1:1,289,889 | 90,528 |
| Pakistan | 262 | 1:681,847 | 10,375 |
| Tonga | 210 | 1:511 | 137 |
| Saudi Arabia | 199 | 1:155,054 | 22,057 |
| United Arab Emirates | 140 | 1:65,445 | 6,155 |
| Russia | 120 | 1:1,201,025 | 87,954 |
| Congo | 119 | 1:41,925 | 3,965 |
| Turkey | 104 | 1:748,283 | 37,471 |
| Philippines | 85 | 1:1,191,038 | 93,973 |
| Nigeria | 84 | 1:2,108,842 | 73,007 |
| Brazil | 81 | 1:2,642,893 | 79,412 |
| Zimbabwe | 76 | 1:203,135 | 23,436 |
| Thailand | 66 | 1:1,070,278 | 160,486 |
| Israel | 56 | 1:152,815 | 15,997 |
| Kuwait | 39 | 1:97,454 | 10,676 |
| England | 36 | 1:1,547,724 | 66,012 |
| Niger | 33 | 1:581,576 | 14,627 |
| South Africa | 28 | 1:1,934,918 | 88,980 |
| Albania | 20 | 1:145,703 | 11,666 |
| China | 20 | 1:68,366,078 | 3,721 |
| Afghanistan | 19 | 1:1,692,273 | 13,110 |
| Uganda | 19 | 1:2,054,699 | 65,771 |
| Australia | 17 | 1:1,587,982 | 78,599 |
| Poland | 17 | 1:2,235,809 | 104,965 |
| Iraq | 16 | 1:2,188,853 | 19,343 |
| New Zealand | 13 | 1:348,333 | 27,379 |
| Singapore | 13 | 1:423,669 | 18,211 |
| Estonia | 12 | 1:110,150 | 19,471 |
| France | 11 | 1:6,038,429 | 280,838 |
| Germany | 11 | 1:7,318,678 | 235,042 |
| Canada | 10 | 1:3,684,559 | 191,443 |
| Denmark | 9 | 1:627,191 | 36,734 |
| Tanzania | 9 | 1:5,882,401 | 60,754 |
| Uzbekistan | 9 | 1:3,436,571 | 32,268 |
| Taiwan | 8 | 1:2,930,593 | 17,989 |
| Belarus | 7 | 1:1,357,294 | 83,128 |
| Sweden | 6 | 1:1,641,126 | 116,183 |
| Belgium | 4 | 1:2,874,161 | 111,046 |
| Romania | 4 | 1:5,019,468 | 62,922 |
| Rwanda | 4 | 1:2,841,244 | 3,611 |
| Solomon Islands | 4 | 1:145,007 | 19,402 |
| Switzerland | 4 | 1:2,053,229 | 97,179 |
| Armenia | 3 | 1:976,727 | 13,552 |
| Argentina | 2 | 1:21,371,707 | 253,176 |
| Chile | 2 | 1:8,808,237 | 65,417 |
| Colombia | 2 | 1:23,887,036 | 32,612 |
| Georgia | 2 | 1:1,872,772 | 35,618 |
| Greece | 2 | 1:5,539,895 | 129,142 |
| North Macedonia | 2 | 1:1,050,736 | 26,362 |
| Senegal | 2 | 1:7,289,671 | 8,117 |
| Spain | 2 | 1:23,376,018 | 128,922 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Andorra | 1 | 1:83,838 | 2,381 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 1:9,649,122 | 47,873 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Cambodia | 1 | 1:15,487,146 | 14,824 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Fiji | 1 | 1:894,391 | 4,568 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Guam | 1 | 1:160,121 | 4,893 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 1 | 1:5,972,654 | 99,197 |
| Latvia | 1 | 1:2,050,046 | 60,295 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Moldova | 1 | 1:3,561,368 | 78,271 |
| Mongolia | 1 | 1:2,825,289 | 17,010 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Serbia | 1 | 1:7,144,948 | 38,459 |
| Somalia | 1 | 1:13,452,061 | 9,224 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
| Vanuatu | 1 | 1:263,276 | 2,086 |
| Vietnam | 1 | 1:92,646,054 | 8,382 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
The alternate forms: Kämi (36), Kámi (35) & Kàmi (1) are calculated separately.
Kami (87,241) may also be a first name.
Kami Demographics
Kami Religious Adherence
in Russia
Religious Adherence
in Russia
Kami Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kami Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kami (Arabic: كميّ, Bengali: কামি, Georgian: კამი, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﺎﻣﻲ, Hindi: कमी, Marathi: कामी, Oriya: କାମି, Russian: Ками, Tibetan: ཀ་མི།) is most common in Nepal. It can also be rendered as a variant: Kämi, Kámi or Kàmi. For other potential spellings of Kami click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kami? popularity and diffusion
The last name Kami is the 1,394th most numerous last name throughout the world, held by around 1 in 18,818 people. Kami occurs mostly in Asia, where 98 percent of Kami live; 93 percent live in South Asia and 91 percent live in Indo-South Asia. Kami is also the 11,479th most frequent forename throughout the world, held by 87,241 people.
The last name Kami is most commonly used in Nepal, where it is carried by 329,262 people, or 1 in 86. In Nepal it is primarily found in: Bheri, where 20 percent live, Rapti, where 18 percent live and Seti, where 17 percent live. Outside of Nepal it exists in 103 countries. It is also found in India, where 6 percent live and Japan, where 4 percent live.
Kami Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Kami has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Kami surname rose 28,100 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Kami Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the Kami last name is predominantly Buddhist (43%) in Russia and Muslim (100%) in Kazakhstan.
In The United States those holding the Kami last name are 32.48% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 85.71% being registered with the party.
The amount Kami earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 48.66% less than the national average, earning R 122,004 per year and in United States they earn 5.92% more than the national average, earning $45,702 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kami Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kami in the Georgian language | ||
| კამი | kami | - |
| Kami in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﺎﻣﻲ | kamy | - |
| Kami in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཀ་མི། | kami | 95.38 |
| ཀཱ་མི། | kami | 2.85 |
| ཀ་མི་ | kami | 0.59 |
| ཀམི། | kami | 0.2 |
| ཀ་མི་། | kami | 0.2 |
| ཀ་མེ། | kamé | 0.1 |
| ཀ་མང། | kamang | 0.1 |
| ཀ་མིི། | kami | 0.1 |
| ཀ་་མི། | kami | 0.1 |
| ཀཱ་མི་ | kami | 0.1 |
| རའི། | ré | 0.1 |
| ཀ་ལི། | kali | 0.1 |
| དཀར་མི་ | karmi | 0.1 |
| Kami in the Hindi language | ||
| कमी | kami | 90.7 |
| कामी | kami | 8.41 |
| कमि | kami | 0.32 |
| कामि | kami | 0.13 |
| कमीज़् | kamiz | 0.06 |
| कमाी | kamai | 0.06 |
| Kami in the Marathi language | ||
| कामी | kami | 62.38 |
| कमी | kami | 37.14 |
| कम | kama | 0.24 |
| अकामी | akami | 0.24 |
| Kami in the Oriya language | ||
| କାମି | kami | 50.92 |
| କମି | kami | 36.71 |
| କାମୀ | kami | 7.19 |
| କମୀ | kami | 2.84 |
| କାଶି | kasi | 0.17 |
| ରାମି | rami | 0.08 |
| କାେମ | kaema | 0.08 |
| ମାିି | maii | 0.08 |
| ବାମି | bami | 0.08 |
| କମିର୍ | kamir | 0.08 |
| କାମ | kama | 0.08 |
| କାପି | kapi | 0.08 |
| ଖଁା | khama | 0.08 |
| Kami in the Bengali language | ||
| কামি | kami | 50 |
| কমি | kami | 40 |
| কামী | kami | 10 |
| Kami in the Russian language | ||
| Ками | kami | - |
| Kami in the Arabic language | ||
| كميّ | kmy | - |
| كامّي | kamy | - |
| كامي | kamy | - |
| كمي | kmy | - |
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Footnotes
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- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Kami
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