Camia
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Hedychium coronarium; a perennial flowering plant from the ginger family Zingiberaceae
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries
/kamja/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Camia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 29K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 100K
- ARArgentina1 in 353K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 120 (measured from records)
- 1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Câmia in AO Angola.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Hedychium coronarium; a perennial flowering plant from the ginger family Zingiberaceae.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where the surname Camia is found
(measured from records)Camia 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Camia | 28 |
| AO Angola | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Câmia | 11 |
| IT Italy | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 147K | listed | Camia | 12 |
| AR Argentina | 129 | 1 in 353K | 129 | Camia | 23 |
| UY Uruguay | 115 | 1 in 29K | 115 | Camia | 7 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Francesco Camiab. 1976ITItalian epigraphist (1976-)
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)Evidence
(measured from records)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Camia mean, and where does it come from?
- Hedychium coronarium; a perennial flowering plant from the ginger family Zingiberaceae. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Camia?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /kamja/; in Portuguese /kɐmiɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Camia?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Camia in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled camia. After it come Angola, Italy, Argentina and Uruguay; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Camia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Camia is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 29 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Camia?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 129 people named Camia, about 1 in 353 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/camiaThe 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, “Camia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.