Camán
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Retanilla ephedra, a wiry Chilean shrub
Camán is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 25K(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 120Kfew records
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 140Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 40 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Caman in PE Peru, CL Chile, ES Spain and 3 more.
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)Retanilla ephedra, a wiry Chilean shrub.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Camán is found
(measured from records)Camán 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Caman | 40 |
| PH Philippines | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 136K | — | Caman | 7 |
| CL Chile | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 124K | — | Caman | 17 |
| FR France | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 516K | 27 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 6.6M | listed | Caman | 18 |
| ES Spain | 45 | 1 in 1.1M | 45 | Caman | 22 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 640K | — | Caman | 2 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Camán is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, hurley, hurl, hurling stick
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Camán mean, and where does it come from?
- Retanilla ephedra, a wiry Chilean shrub. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Camán?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Camán in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled caman. After it come Philippines, Chile, France and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Camán?
- In Spain, the national register counted 45 people named Camán, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Camán?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cam%C3%A1nThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Camán”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.