Entry № 5182 · Sanskrit origin

Kamakala Kamakala — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KAH-mah-KAH-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Art of desire / Tantric Devi"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "art of desire / tantric devi".

Kamakala is from the Sanskrit Kāmakalā. CE + Cid-Vilāsa 13th c.

CE + Cid-Vilāsa 13th c.

The name in its native script.

कामकला
Transliteration
Kāmakalā
Pronunciation
/ ˌkɑː.mɑːˈkɑː.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kamakala stands.

Kamakala does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Kamakalas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Kama god of love / Vatsyayana Kama-Sutra 4th c. 36 chapters 1250 verses / Purushartha Artha Dharma Moksha / Kamakala-Vilasa Punyananda 12th c. 55 verses Chid-Vilasa 13th c. / Kamakala-Yantra Sri Vidya / Kama-Shastra Kama-Sutra Ratirahasya Nagara-Sarvasva Kandarpa Panchasayaka Ananga-Ranga / Kamakalakali Kali Sri Vidya / Kamadeva / Kamarupa Kamakhya
Sanskrit desire-art love-art + kāma desire + kalā art + Kāma Vedic-god + Kāma-Sūtra Vātsyāyana 4th c. 36-chapters 1250-verses Puruṣārtha Artha + Dharma + Mokṣa + Kāmakalā-Vilāsa Sri-Vidya Puṇyānanda 12th c. 55-verses + Cid-Vilāsa 13th c. + Kāmakalā-Yantra + Kāmaśāstra Kāma-Sūtra + Ratirahasya + Nāgara-Sarvasva + Kandarpa-Cūḍāmaṇi + Pañcasāyaka + Anaṅga-Raṅga + Kāmakalākālī + Kāmadeva + Kāmarūpa-Kāmākhyā
Kamakala

Names connected to Kamakala.

The number behind Kamakala.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kamakala reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.