Camara

Camara is the 3,859th most common surname in the United States, shared by 8,957 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 33,400.

By the numbers

People: 8,957
Rank: 3,859th
How common: 1 in 33,400
Per 100,000: 3.0

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Camara described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 41.6%
White, not Hispanic 37.9%
Hispanic or Latino 12.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Camara

Hélder Câmara (1909–1999)Brazilian Catholic priest, archbishop of Olinda and Recife
Moussa Dadis Camara (born 1964)President of Guinea
Henri Camara (born 1977)Senegalese and French footballer
Javier Cámara (born 1967)Spanish actor
Lamine Camara (born 2004)Senegalese footballer
Zoumana Camara (born 1979)French football manager
Souleymane Camara (born 1982)Senegalese and French footballer
Mohamed Camara (born 2000)association football player

People named Camara with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Camara

Also a first name

Camara has been given to 881 American babies as a first name since 1967, peaking in 2007. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.