Given name & surname
Camara
“one who teaches others”
Camara is used as a given name and a surname. One African interpretation is “one who teaches others.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One African interpretation is “one who teaches others.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is African.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1967. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Camara through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 881
- 81 boys · 800 girls
- Most popular year
- 1994
- 36 babies
- 2025
- 12
- #8,459 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −7%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 12 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 8,459 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 6.8% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 34 in 2007. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 829 as a first name in 2020; 8,957 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Camara’s family of names
In English usage, Camara as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form Câmara. In Wolof usage, Camara as a surname has a related form in ݖَمَرَ.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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