Kamala

#9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births

Peak · girls
1964 · 105 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,295
since 1955

Kamala over time

girls

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201955peak #1,060, 1964girls
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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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Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#9,45710
2024#7,96713
2023#12,1977
2022#7,63114
2021#5,09125
2020#6,08319
2019#8,13813
2018#9,80610
2017#9,94310
2016#10,11310
2015#10,8669
2014#10,12910
2013
2012#12,1998
2011#13,3477
2010
2009#9,97511
2008#15,4056
2007#15,4916
2006#11,4179
2005#13,0107
2004#9,89210
2003#11,3258
2002#10,2469
2001#11,0208
2000
1999#6,48415
1998#9,2609
1997#8,33410
1996#11,8076
1995#5,95815
1994#9,5868
1993#4,52422
1992#7,06712
1991#7,98710
1990#6,46513
1989#6,95511
1988#6,27712
1987#6,78810
1986#7,7498
1985#4,63516
1984#5,22213
1983#3,80620
1982#4,52716
1981#3,62522
1980#3,99219
1979#3,23625
1978#3,09825
1977#2,83828
1976#2,66429
1975#2,13640
1974#2,25435
1973#3,23320
1972#2,17335
1971#2,59928
1970#2,08139
1969#2,02338
1968#1,67848
1967#1,68246
1966#1,56851
1965#1,09791
1964#1,060105
1963#1,73844
1962#2,74120
1961#4,23910
1960#4,18410
1959#4,3009
1958#4,8907
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First appearance
1955

The first year at least five girls were named Kamala! It came in at #5,208, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1956–1957, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Kamala is popular in 1955

No state had 5 or more girls named Kamala in 1955, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Kamala
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 1,490 spots since 2024 (#7,967#9,457)
  • 3,374 spots since 2020 (#6,083#9,457)
  • 1,409 spots since 2015 (#10,866#9,457)
Rise & fade · girls
9 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1955
  • Peaked 1964 at #1,060 (105 births)
  • Births halved by 1966, 2 yrs 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 18,046
  • Highest: 1 in 18,046 girls born in 1964 were named Kamala (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 160,727 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1960s
  • 35.8% of all girls named Kamala (463) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s22#4,300 (1959)#4,799
1960s463#1,060 (1964)#2,201
1970s304#2,081 (1970)#2,631
1980s147#3,625 (1981)#5,358
1990s120#4,524 (1993)#7,747
2000s74#9,892 (2004)#11,976
2010s77#8,138 (2019)#10,568
2020s88#5,091 (2021)#8,071

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.

Kamala in 1955

girls
#5,208
6 births · 1 in 325,880 girls

Top girls' names in 1955

  1. #1Mary63,174
  2. #2Deborah52,318
  3. #3Linda51,300
  4. #4Debra50,563
  5. #5Susan47,418
  6. #6Patricia46,226
  7. #7Barbara33,617
  8. #8Karen33,217
  9. #9Nancy30,023
  10. #10Donna27,940
  11. #5,208Kamala6
More about 1955

girls

1,955,277 girls got a published name in 1955; 1 in 325,880 of them was named Kamala, which outranked 22.6% of the 6,732 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Kamala
  1. #4,740Zelpha7
  2. #4,740Zeta7
  3. #4,740Zully7
  4. #5,208Kamala6
  5. #5,208Abra6
  6. #5,208Adah6
  7. #5,208Adonica6
  8. #5,828Abagail5
  9. #5,828Abelina5
  10. #5,828Adalene5

Tied with 619 names at #5,208; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1954
Risers
  1. 793Athena#1,505#712
  2. 675Desiree#984#309
  3. 661Roni#1,197#536
  4. 630Gisele#1,444#814
  5. 593Carmel#1,422#829
Fallers
  1. 514Valinda#806#1,320
  2. 378Elouise#969#1,347
  3. 287Veda#831#1,118
  4. 275Drema#978#1,253
  5. 264Brooke#965#1,229

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

See the top 100 for 1955