Camaj

surname · Latin script

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

/kæmaɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Camaj is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Albanian Camaj. This surname is mostly found in Montenegro.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 505K(measured from records)
  • MEMontenegro≈1 in 12K
  • XKKosovo≈1 in 21K

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.

United States (measured from records)

659 people, 2010

Sources
145 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)

Montenegro, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Borrowed from Albanian Camaj. This surname is mostly found in Montenegro.

Sources 1

Where in the world(measured from records)

Camaj 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 Camaj is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—6591 in 505K833Camaj145
IT Italy—≈99 est.≈1 in 631K—Camaj3
XK Kosovo—≈91 est.≈1 in 21K—Camaj3
DE Germany—≈68 est.≈1 in 1.2M—Camaj28
CH Switzerland—661 in 127K66Camaj4
ME Montenegro#252≈52 est.≈1 in 12K—Camaj10
JM Jamaica—≈24 est.≈1 in 119K—Camaj1
SI Slovenia—141 in 150K14Camaj2

659 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)

Camaj is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Albanian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro

    Also written Çamaj

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Čamaj

  • Slovak surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia, United States

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Čamaj

28 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)

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Camaj,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 13 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Camaj
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020833#30,091
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010659#34,390
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000535#38,833
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202466#15,172
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—14#16,468
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Camaj mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Albanian Camaj. This surname is mostly found in Montenegro. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Camaj?
A machine transcription gives /kæmaɪ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Camaj have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 659 people named Camaj, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled camaj.
How common is the name Camaj?
In the United States, the national register counted 659 people named Camaj in 2010, about 1 in 505 thousand residents.
How common is Camaj compared with other names?
In Montenegro, Camaj is the 252nd most common surname of 2,395 surnames recorded there.

What do you want to know about Camaj?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/camaj

The 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, “Camaj” — the 252nd most common surname in Montenegro. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

See how Camaj parses inside a full name →