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Kemara

Gender
Girl
Say it
kuh-MAR-uh
Origin
Modern

Kemara is a girls' name of Modern origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Kemara come from?

Modern: modern coinage, perhaps a variant of Kamara or Kemar plus -a

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

Kemara is a girls' name.

How popular is Kemara in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2008, with 15 girls. It first appears in the records in 1999.

Half of all the girls named Kemara in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2010, the years shaded on the chart below.

1999Busiest: 15 in 20082021
Kemara in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20215#15,246
20200–
201911#9,106
20180–
20170–
20160–
20150–
20140–
20130–
20120–
201110#10,370
201012#9,227
200912#9,375
200815#8,105
20079#11,626
20067#13,601
20057#13,003
200410#9,887
20030–
20029#10,240
20010–
20007#11,794
19996#12,681

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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, “Kemara: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kemara, updated 20 October 2026.