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Kama

Girls' name

Child, person

Kama has been given to 710 babies in the U.S. since 1954. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1970, with 39 recorded.

Babies named Kama, 2012

1 in 610,000

Kama over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kama: meaning, origin, and history

Child, person

Hawaiian

What Kama means

Kama means “child, person”, associated with kama.

Origin, language, and formation

Kama is used in Hawaiian. Its origins include Hawaiian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hawaiian, Kama is pronounced /ˈka.ma/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 710 girls were recorded with the name Kama between 1954 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 39 in 1970; its best national rank was #2,097 in 1970.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kama?

Kama had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 610,000
6 of 3,657,590 births
Among girls only
1 in 293,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
422,543 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kama sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 422,543 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kama. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kamas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kama was born before 1977 — so the typical Kama is around 48 today.

Median birth year
1977
About 48 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
41.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
710
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 41.3% of all recorded uses (293).

Is Kama rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1970 (39)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,097
1970

Spellings of Kama

Kama is not the most common spelling — Emma is, with 13.8% against Kama's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Kama is used

Across 1910–2025, Kama was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,096,249 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Kama has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kama around the world

Where Kama ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2001
    #3,998
    in 2001
  • France
    1980–2025
    #3,539
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1982–1996
    #712
    in 1996

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kama by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,097
1970
Peak year
1970
39 that year
First recorded
1954
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
710
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kama

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

KamilKamryKameaKamieKamriKamdenKamberLamaKamiaKamrieKamyraKambryRamaKammieKamoniKamoriKamiraKamrenKamreeKamylaKamyahKambriKamyiaKamani

Sibling names for Kama

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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