Cầm

given name · Latin script

Meaning: to hold, to keep

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries

Cầm is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 50K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 55K
  • FIFinland1 in 159K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

6,632 people, 2020

Record sources
110 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Cam in US United States, NL Netherlands.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

to hold, to keep

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Cầm counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Cầm is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States6,6321 in 50K4.3KCam110
SE Sweden1861 in 55K186—8
FI Finland351 in 159K127—4
NL Netherlands331 in 524K28Cam9
DK Denmark321 in 183K86——
IS Iceland11 in 351K1——

6,632 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Cầm is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name40 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Cam, Çam, Cẩm, Çåm, Câm

  • Turkish surname28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, India, United States, Netherlands

    Languages: Turkish, Hindi, Arabic

    Also written Çam, Cam, Çâm, Çãm, Çằm

  • a separate name8 spellings in the group

    Also written Câm, Cằm, Cảm, Cám, Cam

  • Chinese given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Türkiye, Taiwan

    Also written Cam, Çam, Cẩm, Ç'Am, Câm

  • Indonesian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Malaysia, Türkiye

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Cam, Çam, Cẩm

18 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
1400160018002000Pan Qin, b. 1424Ke Qin, b. 1619Hoàng Cầm, b. 1920Hoàng Cầm, b. 1922Xu Zhiqin, b. 1941Tsai Chin, b. 1957Kym Ng, b. 1967Liang Qin, b. 1972Ning Qin, b. 1992
  • Pan Qinb. 1424not in their usual nameMing dynasty politician
  • Ke Qinb. 1619not in their usual nameQing dynasty person CBDB=84750
  • Hoàng Cầmb. 1920VNColonel-general of People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), Commander of PAVN forces in the Operation Attleboro 1966
  • Hoàng Cầmb. 1922VNVietnamese poet, writer and playwright (1922–2010)
  • Xu Zhiqinb. 1941CNnot in their usual nameChinese structural geologist
  • Tsai Chinb. 1957TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese singer
  • Kym Ngb. 1967SGnot in their usual nameSingaporean actress and television presenter
  • Liang Qinb. 1972CNnot in their usual nameChinese fencer
  • Ning Qinb. 1992CNnot in their usual nameChinese freestyle skier
  • Yu Qinnot in their usual nameQing dynasty painter

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Cầm under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Cầm mean, and where does it come from?
to hold, to keep Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Cầm a male or female name?
Cầm is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Cầm have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 6.6 thousand people named Cầm, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cam.
Where is Cầm most common?
Cầm is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 50 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Cầm?
In the United States, the national register counted 6,632 people named Cầm in 2020, about 1 in 50 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cầm”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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