Kamora
Feminine
Kamora arrived on American birth records in the late twentieth century and has held a quiet, unbroken place there ever since — never common, never gone. It moves in three easy beats, with the stress landing on that open middle syllable, and it ends on the same soft -a that closes so many names given to girls in English.
How old is the name Kamora?
Kamora first appears in US birth records in 1979 — 46 years ago. The typical Kamora is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 4,100 people named Kamora are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kamora most popular?
Kamora peaked in 2008, reaching #942 nationally. Today it ranks #1108, 166 places below that high. See the whole 2008 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Kamora
Some names come down through parish registers; this one comes up out of American invention, which is its own long tradition. Kamora shares its opening with Kamari and Kamaria, its ending with Amora and Aurora, and its shape with the many three-beat names that took hold in the United States in the last decades of the twentieth century — a pattern of sound that parents were clearly reaching for, over and over, in the same years. Picture it as a name assembled the way most American music is: familiar pieces, arranged into something that had not existed before. It has been passed along by families for long enough now that the oldest Kamoras are grown women, and the youngest are in elementary school.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source language or translation is established for Kamora. What is documented is where and when it appears: in United States records from the late twentieth century onward, given to girls, with the strongest concentrations in Florida, Illinois and Georgia. It sits alongside a whole family of American names built on the same Ka- opening — Kamari, Kamaria, Kamira — without any traceable line connecting them.
Pronouncing Kamora
kuh-MOR-uh
Three syllables with the weight in the middle. A first-time reader will nearly always land on it correctly; the main variant is a front-stressed KAM-or-uh, worth correcting early if it isn't the one you want.
Nicknames for Kamora
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1979
- Most girls named
- 2008288 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #942reached in 2008
- Change vs 2024
- −5.3%214 in 2025, from 226
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Kamora in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, Illinois, Georgia.
Kamoras among us
people named Kamora are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 7,511 born in 2025 was named Kamora
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kamora
- #1108
- Kamora on the 2025 chart
- #699
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kamora went to 214 girls in 2025, but Kamorah, Camora and Khamora are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 266, which makes it the 699th most-given girls’ name of the year — 409 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 6,042 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 7,511 for Kamora itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Kacy test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kamora's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Kacy climbed just as high around 1987, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Kacy's path sketches the road Kamora is walking now.
Kamora sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Kamora is headed
Kamora should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Kamora beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kamora in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Reads correctly on sight for most English speakers — the spelling and the sound match without explanation.
- Three clear syllables with a strong middle beat, which carries well when a name is called across a room.
- Offers real short forms, Kam and Kammie, without depending on them.
- Rare enough in any one classroom to belong to one child, while still familiar in shape to anyone who hears it.
- No meaning is established, and there isn't one waiting to be found in a dictionary. If a documented meaning matters to you, this name will not supply it.
- Expect a lifetime of near-misses in writing: Kamara, Kamaria, Camora and Kamera all sit close by, and Kamora is also the name of a coffee liqueur sold in the US.
- It is recent, so there is no long line of older bearers to lean on — the name's story in a family will largely start with your child.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kamoras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,100 people named Kamora are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kamora?
- Kamora is the most-used spelling in US records — 214 of the 266 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Kamorah, Camora and Khamora.
- How popular is the name Kamora in 2025?
- Kamora ranks #1108 among US girl names in 2025, with 214 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kamora?
- About 1 in every 7,511 US girls born in 2025 was named Kamora — 214 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kamora with classmates?
- Kamora will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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