Fun Facts About the Name Xamari
- 64 babies named Xamari: U.S. records list 64 babies given the name Xamari from 1880 through 2025. Even 13 girls received the name Xamari - about 1 girl for every 4 boys.
What Does the Name Xamari Mean?
Xamari is a Somali word meaning "a person from Xamar," Xamar being the Somali name for Mogadishu. Somali writes a strong, throaty "h" sound - a voiceless pharyngeal fricative - with the letter x, so Xamar is said roughly "hah-MAR" and Xamari "hah-MAH-ree." The final -i is the Somali ending that forms a word of origin or belonging, the same pattern used for other place-based Somali nouns.
Used as a personal name, Xamari keeps the sense of the place term: someone from the city of Xamar. In English-speaking countries the spelling is usually kept, and the initial x is then read as a "z" sound. This given-name use is recent, and its spelling resembles names such as Samari and Jamari, but no separate etymology apart from the Somali word is established.
Xamari Name History & Origins
Xamar is an old Somali name for Mogadishu, the port city on the Benadir coast of the Indian Ocean. The city's name in formal Somali is Muqdisho, while Xamar remains the local name, and residents of the city have long been known collectively as Reer Xamar, "the people of Xamar." Xamari is the singular form applied to one person from the city.
The -i suffix that turns Xamar into Xamari belongs to a common Somali pattern for words of origin, so the term functions much like an English place-based label. Through Somali migration, the word has also been taken up as a given name, used by Somali families and, more recently, by families in English-speaking countries, where the Somali spelling with initial x is preserved even though the sound it represents in Somali is not the one most English speakers give it.
How Popular is the Name Xamari?
Xamari has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2022. Its best rank was #7,736 in 2022.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #13,121 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2023 | #15,074 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #8,222 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2024 | #9,806 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2023 | #8,875 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2022 | #7,736 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2021 | #13,978 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2020 | #9,513 | 8 | 0.0005% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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