Clamor
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Clamor is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the Philippines.
- PHPhilippines
- DEGermany
- IDIndonesia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Clamor is read(measured from records)
Clamor is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English63%
A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish24%
a clamor, shout
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Clamor is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, din (loud noise)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fro, clamor (continued shouting and uproar)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, a shout, shouting
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Clamor Heinrich Abelb. 1634DEGerman Baroque composer, violinist and organist
- Johann Clemens August von dem Bussche-Loheb. 1706DEnot in their usual name15 Jan 1706 Schlüsselburg - 14 Nov 1764 Hannover
- Clamor Adolph Theodor von dem Busscheb. 17341734-1818; Erbsasse zu Hünnefeld und Buddemühlen, Landrat der Osnabrücker Ritterschaft, 1775 und Geheimer Rat der Regierung in Osnabrück, 1783
- Clamor Huchzermeyerb. 1809DEGerman politician (1809-1899)
- Clamor Wilhelm Schürmannb. 1815DE(1815-1893) Lutheran missionary and pastor
- Georg Willrodab. 1905DEnot in their usual namescreenwriter
- Herbert Grönemeyerb. 1956DEnot in their usual nameGerman singer, musician and actor (born 1956)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 14 | #101,339 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Clamor mean, and where does it come from?
- A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Clamor?
- In the etymology graph, Clamour is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Clamor have the most bearers?
- Clamor is most frequently recorded in the Philippines.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/clamorThe 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, “Clamor”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.