Kemi is a girl's name of African origin meaning “Kem and easily accessible or passable.” In 2024 it was given to 10 girls in the United States.
Kemi at a glance
Gender
Girl name
Origin
African
Meaning
“Kem and easily accessible or passable”
About the name Kemi
Kemi belongs to the African tradition. Its meaning — “Kem and easily accessible or passable” — is the sense carried by its African roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Kemi first appears in Social Security records in 1961. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #4354 in 1978, and in 2024 10 babies received the name — 376 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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