Chamara

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/tʃamɑɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Chamara is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country, where it is the 34th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • LKSri Lanka≈1 in 522(inferred from the name graph)
  • QAQatar≈1 in 22K
  • KWKuwait≈1 in 47K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)

≈44,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
71 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 522 (inferred from the name graph)

Sri Lanka, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ChamaraLatin(measured from records)
චාමරSinhala(measured from records)

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Chamara counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Chamara is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LK Sri Lanka#34≈44,000 est.≈1 in 522—Chamara71
US United States—1551 in 2.1M124Chamara54
AE United Arab Emirates—≈150 est.≈1 in 66K—Chamara7
IT Italy—≈120 est.≈1 in 513K—Chamara14
QA Qatar—≈110 est.≈1 in 22K—Chamara8
KW Kuwait—≈63 est.≈1 in 47K—Chamara3
BH Bahrain—≈11 est.≈1 in 139K—Chamara2

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Chamara is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Sri Lanka

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Chàmàrà

  • Spanish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Sri Lanka, India

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Chámara

  • Russian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Türkiye, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Чамара, Chämara

  • Thai given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Sri Lanka, United States, Thailand

    Also written Shamara, ชามารา, ชะมะรา, Chammara

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, India, Indonesia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Çhamara

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Chamara is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Galician, first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of chamar

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Scottish Gaelic, lenited form of camara

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Aymara, Kuskípa. Faufarron

    as a wordVocabulario de la lengua aymara

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Chamara
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020124#44,535
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202031#44,535
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)19978—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20077—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)19897—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)19797—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)19876—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)19776—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20045—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20015—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)19935—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)19925—

Reference works 1

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Chamara?
A machine transcription gives /tʃamɑɹə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
Is Chamara a male or female name?
Chamara is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Chamara have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 44 thousand people named Chamara in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chamara.
How common is the name Chamara?
In the United States, the national register counted 155 people named Chamara in 2020, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
How common is Chamara compared with other names?
In Sri Lanka, Chamara is the 34th most common given name of 14,062 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Chamara” — the 34th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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