Camala

Last seen for girls in 1994 at #13,430

Peak · girls
1963 · 37 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
196
since 1962

Camala over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Camala has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201962peak #1,922, 1963girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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First appearance
1962

The first year at least five girls were named Camala! It came in at #5,860, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1976–1983, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Camala is popular in 1962

No state had 5 or more girls named Camala in 1962, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Camala
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1994
Rise & fade · girls
1 yr to peak
  • Debuted 1962
  • Peaked 1963 at #1,922 (37 births)
  • Births halved by 1964, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 52,095
  • Highest: 1 in 52,095 girls born in 1963 were named Camala (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 357,151 girls born in 1994 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1960s
  • 62.2% of all girls named Camala (122) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s122#1,922 (1963)#3,863
1970s46#4,534 (1971)#6,670
1980s23#8,153 (1984)#9,537
1990s5#13,430 (1994)#13,430

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Camala in 1962

girls
#5,860
6 births · 1 in 327,767 girls

Top girls' names in 1962

  1. #1Lisa46,069
  2. #2Mary43,502
  3. #3Susan35,752
  4. #4Karen35,184
  5. #5Linda31,461
  6. #6Patricia26,532
  7. #7Donna25,719
  8. #8Cynthia24,025
  9. #9Deborah22,889
  10. #10Sandra22,420
  11. #5,860Camala6
More about 1962

girls

1,966,603 girls got a published name in 1962; 1 in 327,767 of them was named Camala, which outranked 22.7% of the 7,584 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Camala
  1. #5,293Zonia7
  2. #5,293Zonya7
  3. #5,293Zsazsa7
  4. #5,860Camala6
  5. #5,860Adana6
  6. #5,860Adrien6
  7. #5,860Aidee6
  8. #6,578Abbigail5
  9. #6,578Adoree5
  10. #6,578Adoria5

Tied with 717 names at #5,860; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1961
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,281Tiffany#2,070 → #789
  2. ↑ 879Whitney#1,627 → #748
  3. ↑ 541Zina#1,533 → #992
  4. ↑ 414Glynis#1,406 → #992
  5. ↑ 408Lolita#978 → #570
Fallers
  1. ↓ 300Fern#821 → #1,121
  2. ↓ 259Jacklyn#815 → #1,074
  3. ↓ 255Dorthy#929 → #1,184
  4. ↓ 224Laurene#943 → #1,167
  5. ↓ 215Jimmie#911 → #1,126

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1962 →