Indian Names · Girl

Kamalam name meaning

“lotus”

Letters: 7
Syllables: 3
First letter: K
Origin: Tamil · Sanskrit
Category: Indian Names
Gender: ♀ Girl

Peak 1940s: 9%
of the girl top-10 total

JPN Indian table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Decade	girl
1940s	9%
1950s	–
1960s	–
1970s	–
1980s	–
1990s	–
2000s	–
2010s	–

Indian Names: K Meaning flowers Tamil origin

Kamalam is a Tamil girl's name, a form of Sanskrit kamala meaning 'lotus'.

What does Kamalam mean?

Lotus

In Malay: teratai

#Flowers #Purity

Sources (3)

About the name Kamalam

Kamalam is a Tamil word meaning 'lotus', borrowed from Sanskrit kamala. The spelling with the ending -am is the Tamil form of the name Kamala. According to JPN, it was recorded in the 1940s with 186 baby girls.

Gender	♀ Girl
Origin	Tamil, Sanskrit
Syllables	Ka-ma-lam
First letter	Indian Names starting with K

Kamalam in official JPN data

1940s: Girl: 186 · 9%
1950s: not in the top 10
1960s: not in the top 10
1970s: not in the top 10
1980s: not in the top 10
1990s: not in the top 10
2000s: not in the top 10
2010s: not in the top 10

People registered with Kamalam as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Indian table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Sources

Wiktionary: கமலம் · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
Wiktionary: कमल · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
Behind the Name: Kamala · behindthename.com · meaning

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