Kama
A Slavic name meaning "love, desire". Fewer than 150 women in Poland carry it, so most people have never met one, but the last few years have brought a small run of newborn girls.
Kama Pronunciation
Kama is pronounced KAH-mah (/ˈkama/).
What Kama means
Where Kama comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Kama grows from a Slavic root, and that root holds the sense of love and desire. Polish keeps it unadorned: miłość, pragnienie. The name is brief. Four letters, two beats, nothing tucked behind them.
No standard diminutive comes attached to Kama, and no masculine counterpart is recorded. It stands as a full given name, the version a clerk writes on a form at the urząd without asking for anything longer.
Polish name-day calendars mark Kama on 14 July. The word underneath it points to wanting, to the pull toward another person, and that older sense of desire holds. What a bearer answers to is the plain pair the root handed over: love, and the desire that reaches toward someone.
How many people are named Kama
1 in 153359 women in Poland is named Kama. 147 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2675 among female names.
Kama's popularity over time
4 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1076 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2024.
Kama as a middle name
Kama is a first name for 147 women in Poland and a middle name for another 83, a 64/36 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 729th, between Joanne (83) and Renate (83).
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#727 Hildegard83
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#728 Joanne83
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#729 Kama83
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#730 Renate83
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#731 Valerie82