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Kameela

Gender
Girl
Say it
ka-MEE-la
Origin
Arabic
US rank, 2025
#10,913 for girls

Kameela is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “perfect, complete”. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).

What does Kameela mean?

Arabic: spelling of Kamila

“perfect, complete”

Feminine of Kamil, from the Arabic root k-m-l, 'to be complete'.

Is Kameela a girl's or a boy's name?

Kameela is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Kameela in the US?

Rank in 2025
10,913th among girls
Babies in 2025
8 about 1 in 200,000 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, 8 girls in the US were named Kameela, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. Its busiest year was 2019, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 1976.

2025 had fewer girls named Kameela than any year since 2017.

Half of all the girls named Kameela in the US since 1880 were born between 1983 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 7,603 girls in the US were given Kameela or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #18, up from #10,913 for this spelling alone.

1976Busiest: 13 in 20192025
Kameela in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20258#10,913
202410#9,551
202312#8,481
202212#8,536
202112#8,459
202012#8,401
201913#8,134
201812#8,612
20170–
20160–
20158#11,830
20149#10,949
20139#10,995
20125#16,863
20110–
20105#16,985
20097#13,698
20080–
20076#15,485
20065#17,163
20050–
20040–
200311#9,043
20020–
20010–
200011#8,527
19995#14,403
19985#14,116
19970–
19960–
19950–
19940–
19930–
19920–
19910–
19900–
19895#12,356
19880–
19870–
19860–
19850–
19840–
19835#10,272
19828#7,467
19815#10,409
19809#6,788
19799#6,694
197812#5,214
19776#8,442
197611#5,213

Nicknames for Kameela

Names like Kameela

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Kameela

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Sources

Figures from 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, “Kameela: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kameela, updated 20 October 2026.