What does Kamala mean in Hawaiian?
Kamala is a Hawaiian girl name that means sunny child. The name comes from Tamara (Tamar) + ka (the) + mala (aching, sour). It is pronounced kah-MAH-lah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kamala belongs with other Hawaiian names about love, sun and light.
The words inside Kamala
mala means garden, cultivated patch.
How to pronounce Kamala
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kamala are a as in “father”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kamala a boy or girl name?
Kamala is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Kamala is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 1,271 U.S. babies named Kamala since 1955, but that spelling is mostly the Hindi and Sanskrit name, so the count says little about the Hawaiian name.
How well recorded is Kamala?
Kamala has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.