Camara
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ka-MAR-a
- US rank, 2025
- #8,360 for girls
Camara is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).
What does Camara mean?
Spelling of Kamara; Mandinka clan name from West Africa; also a variant of Kamaria
Kamara (Camara) is a Mandinka clan name, common as a surname in Sierra Leone, Guinea and The Gambia.
Meaning borrowed from Kamara.
Is Camara a girl's or a boy's name?
Camara is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Camara in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1996, with 7 girls.
Camara in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 5 | #2,928 |
| 2000 | 4 | #3,399 |
| 1999 | 6 | #2,559 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 7 | #2,201 |
How popular is Camara in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,360th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12 about 1 in 130,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Camara, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2007, with 34 girls. It first appears in the records in 1967.
Half of all the girls named Camara in the US since 1880 were born between 1993 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 54 girls in the US were given Camara or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,468, up from #8,360 for this spelling alone.
Camara in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,360 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,266 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,027 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,557 |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,021 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,801 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,109 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,004 |
| 2014 | 12 | #8,961 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,368 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,107 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,680 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,245 |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,481 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,277 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,379 |
| 2006 | 28 | #4,952 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,240 |
| 2004 | 20 | #5,965 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,202 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,124 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,311 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,202 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,713 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,359 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,413 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,059 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,775 |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,531 |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,872 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,057 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,580 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,125 |
| 1989 | 11 | #6,949 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,272 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,820 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,745 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,075 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,221 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,045 |
| 1982 | 9 | #6,886 |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,390 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,311 |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,442 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,282 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,482 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,678 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,421 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,290 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,386 |
| 1970 | 0 | – |
| 1969 | 0 | – |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,014 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,624 |
Names like Camara
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Francesca, Alora, Ariana, Amara, Sienna, Aria, Syeda, Victoria, Sophia, Serena, Jessica, Eliana
Other spellings of Camara
Names related to Camara
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Camara: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/camara, updated 20 October 2026.