Given name & surname
Kama
“one who loves and is loved”
Kama is used as a given name and a surname. One Indian interpretation is “one who loves and is loved.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Indian interpretation is “one who loves and is loved.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Indian.
How it developed
From Hindi काम, from Polish Kama, from Turkish Kama.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1954. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kama through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 710
- 0 boys · 710 girls
- Most popular year
- 1970
- 39 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2012. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 823 as a first name in 2020; 602 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.
Kama’s family of names
Kama has a related form in Kamah. Kama has a related form in Kamma. Kama has a related form in Kammah.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Kama has relatives in 9 languages.
9 related names in 9 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 3
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 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Kama
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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