Kamara

At the 2020 census, 9,045 Americans bore the surname Kamara — 3,827th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 33,000.

By the numbers

People: 9,045
Rank: 3,827th
How common: 1 in 33,000
Per 100,000: 3.0

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Kamara described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 93.6%
White, not Hispanic 2.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.3%
Hispanic or Latino 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.08%

Notable people called Kamara

Boubacar Kamara (born 1999)French footballer
Glen Kamara (born 1995)Finnish association football player
Diomansy Kamara (born 1980)Senegalese-French footballer
Aboubakar Kamara (born 1995)Mauritanian and French association football player
Kei Kamara (born 1984)Sierra Leonean footballer
Ola Kamara (born 1989)Norwegian footballer
Hassane Kamara (born 1994)Ivoirian and French footballer
Mariam Kamara (born 1979)Nigerien architect

People named Kamara with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Kamara

Also a first name

Kamara has been given to 2,092 American babies as a first name since 1965, peaking in 2007. See it as a given name.

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.