kamarah as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of kamarah

What is the meaning of the name kamarah ?

The baby name kamarah is a Female name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced kuh-MAH-rah.

kamarah is Arabic, Swahili in Origin.

Kamarah blends multiple naming streams. As a variant of Kamara/Kamaria, it traces to Arabic qamar, “moon,” carried into Swahili as Kamaria (“like the moon”), with the -ah ending a common Anglicized flourish. It also overlaps with the widespread West African surname Kamara (Mandinka/Fula and other Mande communities in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia), which has migrated into use as a given name in the diaspora. Together these strands give Kamarah the lunar sense of radiance and calm.

As a given name, Kamarah surfaces in anglophone records from the late 20th century, especially within African and Afro‑diasporic communities, and has modest U.S. and U.K. usage since the 1990s. Variants and related forms include Kamara, Camara, Kamaria, Qamarah, Qamar, and Kamar; nicknames Kami and Mara are common. Predominantly feminine, it can be unisex through the Arabic root. Overall meaning: “moon,” “moonlight,” or “one who shines like the moon.”

⚙ kamarah is exceptionally rare. Across 2 countries, we found just 3 recorded uses of it.