Kemala is from the Malay-Indonesian kemala — from the Sanskrit kamala (lotus, jewel). Kemala is one of the Malay-Indonesian feminine names — central to traditional Malay royal naming and Nusantara cultural heritage. In Malay folklore, kemala (jewel) refers to the mystical bezoar stones believed to be carried by serpents — central to Malay-Indonesian magical-realist storytelling tradition.
Kemala 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.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kemala reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.