Chamara
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries
/ʃaːmara/(machine-generated) Sinhala · model-generated · read from චාමර
Chamara is a female 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. Chamara is also written චාමර in Sinhala.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 660(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 237K
- INIndia≈1 in 310K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 660 (inferred from the name graph)
≈33,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Chamara in other scripts: Sinhala
(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.
How to pronounce Chamara
- Sinhala:/ʃaːmara/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LK Sri Lanka | #34 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 660 | — | Chamara | 71 |
| IN India | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 315K | 12 | Chamara | 11 |
| US United States | — | 155 | 1 in 2.1M | 124 | Chamara | 54 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Chamara | 7 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Chamara | 8 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Chamara | 3 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 193K | — | Chamara | 2 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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 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)Evidence
(measured from records)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Chamara?
- In Sinhala /ʃaːmara/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Chamara a male or female name?
- Chamara is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Chamara?
- Mondonomo estimates about 33 thousand people named Chamara in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chamara. After it come India, United States, United Arab Emirates and Qatar; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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.
What do you want to know about Chamara?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chamaraThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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 2026-10-13.