Kamara Surname
Approximately 828,798 people bear this surname
Kamara Surname User-submission:
The surname Kamara (Camara) has two possible origins:
(West African, mainly Sierra Leone and Liberia) From the name of the Kamara clan of the Mandinka and subsequently Sierra Leonean Temne and Limba peoples. It derives from Arabic qamar, meaning 'moon'.
Read More About This SurnameKamara Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sierra Leone | 669,645 | 1:11 | 1 |
| Liberia | 81,794 | 1:54 | 3 |
| Senegal | 12,882 | 1:1,132 | 130 |
| Ivory Coast | 9,676 | 1:2,384 | 232 |
| Gambia | 9,410 | 1:204 | 48 |
| Sudan | 8,680 | 1:4,321 | 624 |
| United States | 6,114 | 1:59,283 | 7,008 |
| Ghana | 5,057 | 1:5,343 | 751 |
| Uganda | 3,769 | 1:10,358 | 1,763 |
| Mali | 3,420 | 1:4,962 | 336 |
| England | 3,285 | 1:16,961 | 2,448 |
| Tanzania | 1,991 | 1:26,590 | 3,223 |
| Egypt | 1,495 | 1:61,495 | 5,792 |
| India | 1,360 | 1:564,019 | 27,614 |
| Morocco | 1,159 | 1:29,746 | 4,740 |
| Mauritania | 1,158 | 1:3,536 | 430 |
| Kenya | 690 | 1:66,927 | 6,407 |
| Iran | 662 | 1:115,986 | 10,955 |
| DR Congo | 458 | 1:161,309 | 16,675 |
| Canada | 451 | 1:81,698 | 9,108 |
| Chad | 385 | 1:35,304 | 4,109 |
| Spain | 360 | 1:129,867 | 9,913 |
| Australia | 358 | 1:75,407 | 8,829 |
| France | 353 | 1:188,166 | 29,257 |
| Burkina Faso | 326 | 1:56,295 | 2,377 |
| Netherlands | 323 | 1:52,282 | 8,957 |
| Saudi Arabia | 318 | 1:97,031 | 14,320 |
| Greece | 304 | 1:36,447 | 5,787 |
| Belgium | 295 | 1:38,972 | 6,382 |
| Papua New Guinea | 286 | 1:28,510 | 3,229 |
| Nigeria | 220 | 1:805,194 | 35,881 |
| Guinea | 188 | 1:62,946 | 734 |
| Malawi | 183 | 1:93,547 | 11,397 |
| Germany | 171 | 1:470,792 | 41,127 |
| Turkey | 150 | 1:518,809 | 29,212 |
| Sweden | 148 | 1:66,532 | 5,074 |
| Indonesia | 125 | 1:1,057,994 | 76,813 |
| Norway | 90 | 1:57,137 | 8,183 |
| Russia | 79 | 1:1,824,342 | 117,368 |
| United Arab Emirates | 54 | 1:169,672 | 12,566 |
| Israel | 51 | 1:167,797 | 17,113 |
| Brazil | 50 | 1:4,281,487 | 114,765 |
| Kuwait | 48 | 1:79,181 | 9,331 |
| Hungary | 41 | 1:239,421 | 19,309 |
| Lithuania | 39 | 1:77,810 | 11,728 |
| Niger | 38 | 1:505,053 | 13,208 |
| Jamaica | 36 | 1:79,721 | 3,712 |
| Zambia | 34 | 1:466,174 | 21,520 |
| Thailand | 33 | 1:2,140,556 | 247,258 |
| Italy | 28 | 1:2,184,167 | 91,195 |
| Zimbabwe | 27 | 1:571,787 | 44,609 |
| Iraq | 26 | 1:1,346,987 | 15,017 |
| China | 25 | 1:54,692,863 | 2,965 |
| Mozambique | 25 | 1:1,090,463 | 1,880 |
| Ukraine | 25 | 1:1,820,908 | 133,658 |
| South Africa | 23 | 1:2,355,552 | 98,611 |
| Botswana | 22 | 1:99,406 | 15,343 |
| Ireland | 21 | 1:224,235 | 8,707 |
| Congo | 20 | 1:249,455 | 8,571 |
| Benin | 19 | 1:543,979 | 34,804 |
| Cameroon | 19 | 1:1,093,109 | 67,608 |
| Iceland | 19 | 1:20,005 | 1,629 |
| Switzerland | 19 | 1:432,259 | 31,718 |
| Solomon Islands | 14 | 1:41,431 | 8,080 |
| Belarus | 13 | 1:730,851 | 59,297 |
| Mexico | 13 | 1:9,548,170 | 38,962 |
| Scotland | 13 | 1:411,832 | 17,291 |
| Finland | 11 | 1:499,700 | 30,478 |
| Wales | 11 | 1:281,321 | 15,850 |
| Gabon | 9 | 1:209,910 | 2,378 |
| Monaco | 9 | 1:4,118 | 434 |
| Togo | 9 | 1:805,308 | 6,372 |
| Tunisia | 9 | 1:67,847 | 8,246 |
| Denmark | 8 | 1:705,589 | 39,626 |
| Malaysia | 7 | 1:4,213,461 | 150,293 |
| Albania | 6 | 1:485,676 | 18,535 |
| Kazakhstan | 6 | 1:2,947,083 | 107,736 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Namibia | 5 | 1:481,880 | 11,140 |
| Poland | 5 | 1:7,601,750 | 167,855 |
| Afghanistan | 4 | 1:8,038,296 | 30,874 |
| Angola | 4 | 1:6,747,304 | 6,999 |
| Ethiopia | 4 | 1:24,386,566 | 19,165 |
| Japan | 4 | 1:31,961,073 | 53,820 |
| Lebanon | 4 | 1:1,409,271 | 19,641 |
| Portugal | 4 | 1:2,604,560 | 16,079 |
| Romania | 4 | 1:5,019,468 | 62,922 |
| Uzbekistan | 4 | 1:7,732,286 | 43,643 |
| Azerbaijan | 3 | 1:3,216,374 | 32,290 |
| Bulgaria | 3 | 1:2,326,302 | 54,089 |
| Czechia | 3 | 1:3,544,490 | 144,714 |
| Guyana | 3 | 1:254,074 | 11,262 |
| Latvia | 3 | 1:683,349 | 34,074 |
| Philippines | 3 | 1:33,746,074 | 302,898 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 3 | 1:454,658 | 14,297 |
| Austria | 2 | 1:4,257,718 | 99,224 |
| Ecuador | 2 | 1:7,952,923 | 34,269 |
| Pakistan | 2 | 1:89,321,942 | 157,560 |
| Venezuela | 2 | 1:15,102,038 | 69,873 |
| Northern Ireland | 1 | 1:1,845,036 | 20,648 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| American Samoa | 1 | 1:55,758 | 3,072 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 1 | 1:99,171 | 2,137 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Bahrain | 1 | 1:1,348,608 | 10,432 |
| Bermuda | 1 | 1:65,279 | 3,010 |
| Cape Verde | 1 | 1:529,642 | 6,792 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 1:10,432,932 | 36,508 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1:1,321,804 | 40,178 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Guinea-Bissau | 1 | 1:1,728,021 | 323 |
| Haiti | 1 | 1:10,683,907 | 24,607 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Mauritius | 1 | 1:1,293,417 | 16,552 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Northern Cyprus | 1 | 1:319,011 | 10,202 |
| Rwanda | 1 | 1:11,364,978 | 5,947 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 1 | 1:112,659 | 1,704 |
| Serbia | 1 | 1:7,144,948 | 38,459 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 1:20,808,560 | 18,521 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 1:10,043,737 | 422,899 |
The alternate forms: Kamará (1) & Kamarà (1) are calculated separately.
Kamara (25,996) may also be a first name.
Kamara Surname Meaning
User-submitted Reference
The surname Kamara (Camara) has two possible origins:
(West African, mainly Sierra Leone and Liberia) From the name of the Kamara clan of the Mandinka and subsequently Sierra Leonean Temne and Limba peoples. It derives from Arabic qamar, meaning 'moon'.
(Hungarian) From kamara, meaning 'little room'. It derives from Latin camera or camara, meaning 'house room royal treasury'. It may also be an American shortened form of Hungarian Kamarás, a status name for the treasurer of a court or of the royal household or alternatively for a chamberlain.
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Kamara Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kamara Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kamara (Bengali: কামরা, Georgian: კამარა, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻤﺮﺍ, Hindi: कामरा, Marathi: कामरा, Oriya: କମାର, Russian: Камара) is found most in Sierra Leone. It can be rendered in the variant forms: Kamará or Kamarà. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kamara? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 656th most commonly held last name on a global scale, borne by approximately 1 in 8,793 people. It is mostly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Kamara live; 95 percent live in West Africa and 82 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 31,054th most commonly occurring forename worldwide It is held by 25,996 people.
It is the most frequent surname in one country:Sierra Leone, where 81 percent are found. This last name is most frequently occurring in Sierra Leone, where it is held by 669,645 people, or 1 in 11. Barring Sierra Leone Kamara exists in 121 countries. It is also common in Liberia, where 10 percent are found and Senegal, where 2 percent are found.
Kamara Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Kamara has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Kamara surname expanded 122,280 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Kamara Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the last name is chiefly Orthodox (88%) in Russia, Christian (100%) in Kenya and Sunni (75%) in Lebanon.
In The United States those bearing the Kamara last name are 11.42% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 64.65% registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Kamara earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 24.43% less than the national average, earning 261,530 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 20.22% more than the national average, earning R 285,684 per year; in United States they earn 5.65% less than the national average, earning $40,710 USD per year and in Canada they earn 41.08% less than the national average, earning $29,272 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kamara Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kamara in the Georgian language | ||
| კამარა | kamara | - |
| Kamara in the Bengali language | ||
| কামরা | kamara | - |
| Kamara in the Marathi language | ||
| कामरा | kamara | 84.97 |
| कमरा | kamara | 11.37 |
| कामारा | kamara | 0.77 |
| कमारा | kamara | 0.77 |
| मकामरा | makamara | 0.19 |
| इमरान | imarana | 0.19 |
| Kamara in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻤﺮﺍ | kmra | 74.15 |
| ﻛﺎﻣﺮﺍ | kamra | 14.97 |
| ﻛﻤﺎﺭﺍ | kmara | 3.4 |
| ﻛﺎﻣﺎﺭﺍ | kamara | 3.06 |
| ﻛﻤﺮ | kmr | 2.72 |
| ﻛﻤﺮﻯ | kmry | 1.02 |
| ﻛﺎﻣﻴﺮﺍ | kamyra | 0.34 |
| ﻛﻤﺮﻣﺼﻄﺎﻑ | kmrmstaf | 0.34 |
| Kamara in the Hindi language | ||
| कामरा | kamara | 68.47 |
| कमर्ा | kamara | 18.18 |
| कमरा | kamara | 8.81 |
| कमारा | kamara | 1.42 |
| कमर | kamara | 1.14 |
| कमार | kamara | 0.28 |
| कमरअ | kamara'a | 0.28 |
| Kamara in the Oriya language | ||
| କମାର | kamara | 40.98 |
| କମରା | kamara | 24.59 |
| କମାରା | kamara | 13.11 |
| କାମରା | kamara | 6.56 |
| କମର | kamara | 3.28 |
| କାମାରା | kamara | 3.28 |
| ହିରାମଣି | hiramani | 1.64 |
| କମାରୁଣି | kamaruni | 1.64 |
| ସନାତନ | sanatana | 1.64 |
| କୁମାର | kumara | 1.64 |
| Kamara in the Russian language | ||
| Камара | kamara | - |
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