Kambala
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A tribe of Nāgas; present at the Mahāsamaya and listed with the Assataras at the foot of Sineru (D.ii.258; J.vi.165)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kəmbɑɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kambala is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 492K(measured from records)
- NANamibia≈1 in 8.4K
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.9M
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 Kambala 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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.4K (inferred from the name graph)
2,694 people
Highest-authority source
Namibia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A tribe of Nāgas; present at the Mahāsamaya and listed with the Assataras at the foot of Sineru (D.ii.258; J.vi.165).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kambala 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 2,694 | 1 in 492K | 2.7K | Kambala | 62 |
| NA Namibia | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | 1 | — | 1 |
| US United States | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 6M | — | Kambala | 55 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 10M | — | Kambala | 8 |
| PL Poland | 12 | 1 in 3.2M | 10 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 9 | 1 in 1.9M | 9 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 5as Kambali | 1 in 1.1M | 5 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 4 | 1 in 2.9M | 4 | — | — |
2,694 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates. 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)
Kambala 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.
a Naga (M); a Varsa on KuSadvipa (M); a
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
a small worm.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
In English, An annual buffalo race held in Karnataka, India.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Azerbaijani, flatfish
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kmb, Canoa
as a wordDiccionario Portuguez-Kimbundu
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)
- Kaspars Kambalab. 1978LVLatvian basketball player (born 1978)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5.7K | #488 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 2.7K | #2,495 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 16 | #23,156 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 10 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 10 | #134,716 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 9 | #66,497 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 6 | #2,861 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #108,930 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #344,601 |
| NA Namibia | ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates | 2025 | 1 | #15 |
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 Kambala mean, and where does it come from?
- A tribe of Nāgas; present at the Mahāsamaya and listed with the Assataras at the foot of Sineru (D.ii.258; J.vi.165). Recorded by Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh).
- How do you pronounce Kambala?
- A machine transcription gives /kəmbɑɫə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Kambala have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Kambala, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kambala.
- How common is the name Kambala?
- In India, the national register counted 2,694 people named Kambala, about 1 in 492 thousand residents.
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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, “Kambala”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.