Càm

given name · Latin script

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

Càm is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Malay cam. From Sanskrit [Term?]. Compare Urak Lawoi' จับ (cap, “to remember”).

  • USUnited States1 in 50K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 55K
  • FIFinland1 in 159K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.

United States (measured from records)

6,632 people, 2020

Record sources
394 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Cam in US United States, NZ New Zealand, NL Netherlands.

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)
Derivation of Càm: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Càm
  1. Malaycam(measured from records)
  2. Sanskrit[Term?](measured from records)

From Malay cam. From Sanskrit [Term?]. Compare Urak Lawoi' จับ (cap, “to remember”).

Cited for this meaning 6

  • 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Welsh Surnames
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Digital Pāḷi Dictionary

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Càm 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 Càm is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—6,6321 in 50K4.3KCam394
SE Sweden—1861 in 55K186—12
FI Finland—351 in 159K127—5
NL Netherlands—331 in 524K28Cam19
DK Denmark—321 in 183K86—1
NZ New Zealand#692———Cam89

6,632 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)

Càm is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name29 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Cam, Çam, Cẩm, Cầm, Câm

2 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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Càm under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Càm mean, and where does it come from?
From Malay cam. From Sanskrit [Term?]. Compare Urak Lawoi' จับ (cap, “to remember”). Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 4 other sources.
Is Càm a male or female name?
Càm is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Càm have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 6.6 thousand people named Càm, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cam.
Where is Càm most common?
Càm is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 50 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Càm?
In the United States, the national register counted 6,632 people named Càm in 2020, about 1 in 50 thousand residents.
How common is Càm compared with other names?
In New Zealand, Càm is the 692nd most common given name of 26,737 given names recorded there.

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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, “Càm” — the 692nd most common given name in New Zealand. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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