Kemora
Feminine
There is a Spanish city in the middle of this rhyme family. Zamora, on the Duero, gives its name to a province, a bishopric and a great many people, and Kemora, Lamora and Damora are all rhyming on it without any of them knowing.
How old is the name Kemora?
Kemora first appears in US birth records in 2000 — 25 years ago. The typical Kemora alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 700 people named Kemora are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kemora most popular?
Kemora peaked in 2008, reaching #2718 nationally. Today it ranks #6838, 4,120 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 Kemora
Rhyme families need a first member, and it is usually a real name that happened to be in the air. For the -mora set the likeliest candidate is Zamora, a Spanish surname and place name well known in American cities with Mexican populations, and Lenora and Lamora sit close by. Once the ending was familiar the prefix system attached to it, and Kemora, Demora and Jamora followed. What is worth noting is the date: Kemora's best year in United States records is 2008, which is thirty years after the Ke- prefix first became productive. The prefix families are routinely described as a phenomenon of the 1970s and 1980s, and they were still generating new names well into the twenty-first century.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No inherited etymology. The Ke- prefix is a free American naming element and the -mora ending is a sound rather than a word. Zamora, the Spanish city whose name the family rhymes with, has an unresolved etymology of its own, possibly Arabic or pre-Roman. Latin mora, a delay, and Spanish mora, a blackberry, are separate words and are not the source.
Pronouncing Kemora
kuh-MOR-uh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The rhythm matches Zamora and Lenora exactly, which is the point of the ending.
Nicknames for Kemora
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
- 2000
- Most girls named
- 200867 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2718reached in 2008
- Change vs 2024
- −38.5%16 in 2025, from 26
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.
Kemora in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Kemorah in English — spelling variant
- Zamora in Spanish — related form
Kemoras among us
people named Kemora are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 100,454 born in 2025 was named Kemora
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Naisha test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kemora's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Naisha climbed just as high around 1983, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Naisha's path sketches the road Kemora is walking now.
Kemora 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
Kemora beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kemora in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The Latinate rhythm makes it sound long-established at first hearing.
- Mora is available as a short form and is a real word and surname.
- Spelled the way it sounds, with no silent letters.
- The name has no meaning to pass on.
- Kemorah and Kemora both circulate.
- It is close to Zamora and Lamora and gets confused with both.
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Feminine · #6838 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Kemoras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Kemora are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Kemora in 2025?
- Kemora ranks #6838 among US girl names in 2025, with 16 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kemora?
- About 1 in every 100,454 US girls born in 2025 was named Kemora — 16 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kemora with classmates?
- Kemora will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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