Entry № 5185 · Sanskrit origin

Kamala Kamala — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KAH-mah-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Lotus (epithet of Lakshmi; US Vice President)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "lotus (epithet of lakshmi; us vice president)".

Kamala (कमला) is the Sanskrit word for "lotus" — an epithet of Lakshmi, the goddess of fortune. Kamala Das (1934-2009) was the Indian poet of My Story.

Subject of Dan Morain's Kamala's Way (2021).

Lotus (epithet of Lakshmi; US Vice President) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

कमला
Transliteration
Kamalā
Pronunciation
/ ˈkɑː.mə.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kamala stands.

Kamala 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.

Kamalas before her.

Real people
Kamala Harris
49th US Vice President.
born 1964
Kamala Das
Indian poet.
1934 – 2009
In fiction
Kamala
Featured in Hesse's Siddhartha.
1922

Names connected to Kamala.

The number behind Kamala.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kamala reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.