First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
Japanese: from a common place name meaning ‘upper rice paddy’; variously written, and also read Kamida. The surname, like the place name, is found throughout Japan and the Ryūkyū Islands.