Camele
surname · Latin script
Meaning: inflection of camelar: (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/kamele/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Camele is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country: 22 people, counted by BFS in 2024.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 382K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 4.5M
- FRFrance≈1 in 15Mfew 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.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 32 (measured from records)
- 1 in 382K (inferred from the name graph)
22 people, 2024
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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.
How to pronounce Camele
- Spanish:/kamele/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)inflection of camelar:
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where the surname Camele is found
(measured from records)Camele 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | 22 | 1 in 382K | 22 | Camele | 4 |
| AR Argentina | 10 | 1 in 4.5M | 10 | — | — |
| FR France | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 15M | 13 | Camele | 32 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Camele | 9 |
| GY Guyana | — | — | 3 | — | — |
22 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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 noms de famille (1891–2000); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)Camele 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 Latin, vocative singular of camēlus
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Camele mean, and where does it come from?
- inflection of camelar: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Camele?
- In Spanish /kamele/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Camele?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 22 people named Camele, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled camele. After it come Argentina and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Camele most common?
- Camele is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 382 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Camele?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 22 people named Camele in 2024, about 1 in 382 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Camele?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cameleThe 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, “Camele” — ranked 34100th in Switzerland (BFS, 2024). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.