Family name origins & meanings
- India (Goa and Karnataka) : Hindu (Brahman) name found among the Saraswat Brahmans of Goa, and particularly in coastal Karnataka. It is from Old Konkani kāmati, kāmatī ‘cultivator’, from kāmata ‘cultivation’, ‘cultivated land’ (a derivative of Sanskrit karma ‘work’) + the agent suffix -i, -ī. In Kannada, kamata denoted in particular cultivation which a landowner carried out using his own stock but the labor of others.