Kamalu
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Igbo (Nigeria): refers to the God of Lightning
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kamalu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 46th most common given name.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 515as Kamal(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 671as Kamal
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 2.6Kas Kamal
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kamalu itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- #875 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 317 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 328 (inferred from the name graph)
≈240,000 named Kamal, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est., as Kamal
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kamal in US United States, PK Pakistan, BD Bangladesh and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Igbo (Nigeria): refers to the God of Lightning
Sources 1
- African Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kamalu counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #46 | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 671 | listed | Kamal | 131 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈93,000 est. | ≈1 in 328 | — | Kamal | 92 |
| MA Morocco | #382 | ≈69,000 est. | ≈1 in 515 | — | Kamal | 51 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | listed | Kamal | 41 |
| PK Pakistan | #344 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | 1 | Kamal | 96 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 696 | 478 | — | 18 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Kamal | 58 |
| US United States | — | 7,855as Kamal | 1 in 42K | 7.2K | Kamal | 317 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; the african-book-names-hodari-2003 register; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kamalu is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
God of lightning.
as a nameThe African book of names
quiet warrior.
as a nameAfrican Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Frank Kamalub. 1991GHGhanaian footballer
- Ufomba Kamalub. 1992USAmerican football player (born 1992)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 5 | — |
| NG Nigeria | The African Book of Names (Hodari, 2003) | — | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | African Names (Julia Stewart, 1993) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kamalu mean, and where does it come from?
- Igbo (Nigeria): refers to the God of Lightning Recorded by African Names.
- Is Kamalu a male or female name?
- Kamalu is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Kamalu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 242 thousand people named Kamal in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kamalu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,855 people named Kamal in 2020, about 1 in 42 thousand residents.
- How common is Kamalu compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Kamalu is the 46th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kamaluThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kamalu” — the 46th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.