Entry № 5189 · Other origin

Kamali Kamali — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kah-MAH-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Spirit-protector (Swahili + Bantu heritage)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Swahili)

A name that means "spirit-protector (swahili + bantu heritage)".

Kamali is from the Swahili Kamali — protector + spiritual guide from Bantu language family also Arabic Kamal (perfection). Kamali is one of the Swahili feminine + unisex names — central to traditional East African heritage.

Spirit-protector (Swahili + Bantu heritage).

The name in its native script.

Kamali
Transliteration
Kamali
Pronunciation
/ kəˈmɑː.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kamali stands.

Kamali does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Kamalis before her.

Real people
Norma Kamali
American fashion designer + pioneering American sportswear heritage.
born 1945
In fiction
Kamali
Swahili spirit-protector + Bantu Indigenous heritage + pan-Swahili coastal East Africa.

Names connected to Kamali.

The number behind Kamali.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kamali reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.