Kamala
About 1,295 American babies have been named Kamala since 1955, most of them around 1964. In 2025 it ranked 9,457th. About 1,200 Kamalas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 50.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Kamala
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,295
- Estimated living today
- 1,200
- Median age today
- 50
- Peak year
- 1964
- Best rank
- 1,060th
- Rank in 2025
- 9,457th
- First recorded
- 1955
How old the living Kamalas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,295 babies given the name since 1955, about 1,200 are alive — 94 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1975 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Sanskrit
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Kamalas
- Kamala Harris (born 1964)Vice President of the United States from 2021 to 2025
- Kamala Surayya (1934–2009)Indian author and poet
- Kamala Sohonie (1912–1998)Indian biochemist
- Kamala Nehru (1899–1936)Indian independence activist
- Kamala Markandaya (1924–2004)Indian writer
- Kamala (1950–2020)American professional wrestler
- Kamala Das Gupta (1907–2000)Indian activist
- Kamala Sankrityayan (1920–2009)Indian writer
People named Kamala with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Kamala is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Kamala is most concentrated in California (5.0×), New York (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1964
The most popular girls’ names the year Kamala peaked:
Kamala elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Kamala | 25 | 4,165th |
| England and Wales girls | Kamala | 22 | 3,961st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Kamala among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Kamala | — | 5 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Kamala against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.