Kamël
surname · Latin script
Kamël is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country, where it is the 12th most common given name. Recorded meaning: from kamei ‘camel’ (Latin camelus, Greek kamelos-, cf. Hebrew gamal). Kamël is also written คาเมล in Thai.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 330(inferred from the name graph)
- TNTunisia≈1 in 360
- FRFrance≈1 in 3.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 311 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 326 (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Kamël in other scripts: Thai
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kamel in FR France, DZ Algeria, EG Egypt 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)from kamei ‘camel’ (Latin camelus, Greek kamelos-, cf. Hebrew gamal). This was a common house sign in central Europe in the later Middle Ages, and the surname generally denoted someone who lived in a house bearing this sign. It may also have been a nickname for an ill-tempered or clumsy person, or as a Jewish name it was probably ornamental.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
- Nordic Names
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kamël 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | #12 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 326 | — | Kamel | 100 |
| TN Tunisia | #18 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 360 | 1.6K | Kamel | 74 |
| EG Egypt | #493 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Kamel | 165 |
| FR France | #426 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | 14K | Kamel | 311 |
| SY Syria | #830 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | — | Kamel | 30 |
| US United States | — | 1,173 | 1 in 284K | 2.2K | Kamel | 248 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kamël mean, and where does it come from?
- from kamei ‘camel’ (Latin camelus, Greek kamelos-, cf. Hebrew gamal). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003) and 1 other source.
- Which countries have the most people named Kamël?
- Mondonomo estimates about 143 thousand people named Kamël in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kamel. After it come Tunisia, Egypt, France and Syria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kamël?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,173 people named Kamël in 2020, about 1 in 284 thousand residents.
- How common is Kamël compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Kamël is the 12th most common given name of 27,215 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kam%C3%ABlThe 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, “Kamël” — the 12th most common given name in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.