Kamala
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kamala is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. In Azerbaijan it is the 91st most common given name. Recorded meaning: Feminine form of KAMAL 1; a byname of the goddess Lakshmi, wife of Vishnu.
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 419(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 6.7Kas Kamila
- CZCzechia1 in 283as Kamila
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 Kamala 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- #963 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 262 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 419 (inferred from the name graph)
111,676 named Kamila, 2026
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Camara in BR Brazil, קמלה in PL Poland and Komola in UZ Uzbekistan.
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)
Feminine form of KAMAL 1; a byname of the goddess Lakshmi, wife of Vishnu.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kamala 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | — | 111,676as Kamila | 1 in 343 | 112K | קמלה | 3 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 37,882as Kamila | 1 in 283 | 38K | Kamala | 6 |
| BR Brazil | — | 31,743as Kamila | 1 in 6.7K | 80K | Camara | 175 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #91 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 419 | 478 | Kamala | 34 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | listed | Komola | 14 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,871as Kamal | 1 in 5.5K | 1.9K | Kamala | 17 |
111,676 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026, counting the spelling kamila. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); MVČR — living population register 2017; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Kamala is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Rama (N); a Sisya of Vaigampayana (K);
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
» an Apsaras (K)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
lotus
as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
lotus (Nelumbo speciosum). pale red; rose coloured.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Flor de loto
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)
- Kamala Nehrub. 1899INIndian independence activist (1899–1936)
- Kamala Sohonieb. 1911INIndian biochemist (1911–1998)
- Kamala Sankrityayanb. 1920INIndian writer
- Kamala Markandayab. 1924INIndian writer (1924–2004)
- Kamala Devib. 1933INIndian-american actress (1933-2010)
- Kamala Dasb. 1934INIndian author and poet (1934–2009)
- Kamala Krithivasanb. 1948INPh.D. University of Madras 1974
- Kamala Harrisb. 1964USVice President of the United States from 2021 to 2025
- Kamala Lopezb. 1964USAmerican actress and director
- Kamala Jonesb. 1977USAmerican actress
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 60 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 26 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 24 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 24 | #80,163 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Kamala mean, and where does it come from?
- Feminine form of KAMAL 1; a byname of the goddess Lakshmi, wife of Vishnu. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- In which country does Kamala have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 112 thousand people named Kamila, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kamala?
- In Poland, the national register counted 111,676 people named Kamila in 2026, about 1 in 343 residents.
- How common is Kamala compared with other names?
- In Azerbaijan, Kamala is the 91st most common given name of 28,848 given names recorded there.
- Is Kamala a male or female name?
- Kamala is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What are other forms of the name Kamala?
- In the etymology graph, Kamal is a form of the same name in other languages.
What do you want to know about Kamala?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kamalaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Kamala” — the 91st most common given name in Azerbaijan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.