Given name & surname · also Turkish
Kamber
Kamber is a masculine given name from Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from Arabic. It is used in Turkish.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Kamber comes from Ottoman Turkish, and ultimately from Arabic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Ottoman Turkish قنبر (Kamber), from Arabic قَنْبَر.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1973. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kamber through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 730
- 0 boys · 730 girls
- Most popular year
- 2009
- 35 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #9,768 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −35%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 9,768 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 35.2% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 35 in 2009. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 654 as a first name in 2020; 359 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.
Kamber’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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