Kamla

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Camara in BR Brazil, ES Spain, GW Guinea-Bissau and 10 more, Kamala in IN India, CZ Czechia, US United States and 8 more and Камала in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Kamla is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name3.9K records spelled Kamla3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Spain, Brazil

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Kâmlâ

• French given name1.8K records spelled Kamla3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, India, United States, Morocco

  Also written Kåmlå

• Lao given name1.4K records spelled Kamla53 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Laos, India, Thailand, Chile

  Languages: Lao, Thai

  Also written Camila, Kamila, กามีลา, Kameela, Kammala

29 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Kamla 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 Indonesian, syllabic abbreviation of keamanan laut (“maritime security”)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Maltese, moth

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

Over time●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 17 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Kamla Chowdhryb. 1920INIndian educationist
• Kamla Beniwalb. 1927INIndian politician
• Kamla Bhasinb. 1946INsocial scientist
• Kamla Persad-Bissessarb. 1952TTpolitician from Trinidad and Tobago
• Kamla Jaanb. 1954INIndian mayor
• Kamla Abou Zekryb. 1974EGEgyptian film director

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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 117 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Kamla?

We estimate roughly 206 thousand people bear Kamla (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Kamla have the most bearers?

Kamla is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled kamala.

How common is Kamla compared with other names?

In India, Kamla is the 65th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.

Is Kamla a male or female name?

Kamla is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.