Kamla
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kamla has been given to 73 babies in the U.S. since 1957. 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 1969, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Kamla, 1990
1 in 790,000
Kamla over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kamla?
Kamla had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1990, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1990
- 1 in 790,000
- 5 of 3,949,959 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 379,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1990
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 547,582 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kamla sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1990 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 547,582 children born in 1990 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kamla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kamlas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kamla was born before 1971 — so the typical Kamla is around 54 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 42.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 78.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 73
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 42.5% of all recorded uses (31).
Is Kamla 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1969 (9)
- Years since peak
- 56
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.3% average annual change
Spellings of Kamla
Kamla is not the most common spelling — Pamela is, with 22.6% against Kamla'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.
Kamla around the world
Where Kamla 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.
- France1969–2021#3,914in 2021
- South Australia1984–1984#661in 1984
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kamla by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kamla
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kamla
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.