Camél

given name · Latin script

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

Camél is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): scattered in England; also. see Cammell .

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium1 in 355K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 364K
  • SESweden1 in 425K

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)

915 people, 2010

Sources
10 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 355K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Camel in US United States.

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)

Main GB Location (1881): scattered in England; also. see Cammell .

Sources 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Camél 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 Camél is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States9151 in 364K945Camel10
BR Brazil1581 in 1.3M158—1
AR Argentina461 in 989K46——
BE Belgium331 in 355K33——
SE Sweden241 in 425K24—2

915 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)

Camél is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Camel

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Camel, Ca'Mel, Ca’Mel, Cámel

2 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Camél mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): scattered in England; also. see Cammell . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
Is Camél a male or female name?
Camél is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Camél have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 915 people named Camél, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled camel.
Where is Camél most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Camél is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 355 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Camél?
In the United States, the national register counted 915 people named Camél in 2010, about 1 in 364 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, “Camél”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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