The Kamara surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 6,288 people carried this name — #5,530 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 46,900 people counted. That is up 139% from 2,627 in 2000.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 619 people named Kamara live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Antwerp.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 201 people named Kamara.
Most of them — 126 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 23 départements, most often Paris.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
77 people named Kamara live in Switzerland.
They live in 10 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
338 people named Kamara are counted in Sweden and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Kamara in American newspapers,
1922.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 2,826 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Kamara,
with a public archive behind them.
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Adama Kamara 1964– · lawyer -
János Kamara 1927–2000 · politician
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Laimonis Kamara 1934–1983 · writer
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Lamine Kamara 1940– · writer
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Usman Boie Kamara 1949–2020 · businessperson
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Paul Kamara 1956– · politician
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Kamara.
- Kalt 513 · U.S. census
- Kaltenbach 1,348 · U.S. census
- Kaluza 679 · U.S. census
- Kaluzny 435 · U.S. census
- Kam 3,749 · U.S. census
- Kamal 2,623 · U.S. census
- Kamel 1,477 · U.S. census
- Kaminska 316 · U.S. census
- Kaminski 14,152 · U.S. census
- Kamm 2,202 · U.S. census
- Kammer 2,648 · U.S. census
- Kammerer 3,659 · U.S. census
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