Kama — girls' name

What the Data Says About Kama

The Social Security Administration has registered 710 babies named Kama between 1954 and 2012, spanning 59 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kama currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2012. The name reached its historical peak in 1970, when 39 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kama performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 293 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Kama shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 18 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Oklahoma. In total, SSA state-level files list Kama in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kama in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 710 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.