Given name
Kamuela
Kamuela is a masculine given name from Bible. It is used in Hawaiian.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1975. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kamuela through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 298
- 298 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 16 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,960 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −61%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,960 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 16 in 2007. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 274 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kamuela’s family of names
In Hawaiian usage, Kamuela has a conventional equivalent in the English form Samuel.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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