Kamka
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kəmkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kamka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: damast; svilena tkanina.
- THThailand≈1 in 219Kas การค้า(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 482Kas Kalka
- EEEstonia≈1 in 117K
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 Kamka 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 117K (inferred from the name graph)
884 named Kalka, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled การค้า in TH Thailand and Karka in IN India.
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)
damast; svilena tkanina
Sources 1
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kamka 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 | 884as Kalka | 1 in 43K | 443 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 690as Kalka | 1 in 482K | 690 | Kamka | 81 |
| TH Thailand | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 219K | #17,571 | การค้า | 48 |
| IN India | 124as Khankha | 1 in 11M | 124 | Karka | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | 74as Kalka | 1 in 234K | 74 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 30as Kalka | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 117K | listed | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | 4as Kalka | 1 in 188K | 4 | — | — |
884 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Kamka 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.
In Serbo-Croatian, damast; svilena tkanina
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
In Latvian, Neveikls, lempīgs cilvēks
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Kamil Kamkab. 1931IDIndonesian judge
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 10 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 131 | #129,825 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 122 | #128,797 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 107 | #151,639 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 25 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 25 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 25 | #78,141 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 25 | #78,327 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #143,546 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Kamka mean, and where does it come from?
- damast; svilena tkanina Recorded by Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74).
- How do you pronounce Kamka?
- A machine transcription gives /kəmkə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kamka have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 884 people named Kalka, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kamka?
- In Poland, the national register counted 884 people named Kalka in 2026, about 1 in 43 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kamka?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kamkaThe 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, “Kamka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.