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Updated June 9, 2019

Girl name origins & meanings

  • Swahili : Like the moon

Girl name variations

How Popular Is The Name Kamara

Family name origins & meanings

  • Muslim : from a personal name based on Arabic qamar ‘moon’.
  • Hungarian : from kamara ‘little room’, from Latin camera or camara ‘house’, ‘room’, ‘royal treasury’. The most common Hungarian variant of this surname, Kamarás, is a status name for the treasurer of a court or of the royal household, or alternatively for a chamberlain. Compare German Kammerer.

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