Kaems
surname · Latin script
Kaems is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country.
- ASAmerican Samoa≈1 in 9.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 25Kas Kams
- CMCameroon≈1 in 53Kas Kams
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kaems itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈530 named Kams, est.
Highest-authority source
American Samoa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kams in US United States, DE Germany, NG Nigeria and 3 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kaems 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Kams | 1 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Kams | 7 |
| BR Brazil | — | 82as Kams | 1 in 2.6M | 82 | — | — |
| US United States | — | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 4.6M | — | Kams | 61 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Kams | 19 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 25K | listed | Kams | 4 |
| FI Finland | — | 28as Kams | 1 in 199K | 28 | — | — |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 501K | — | Kams | 1 |
| AS American Samoa | #111 | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 9.1K | — | Kaems | 1 |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Kaems have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 526 people named Kams in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kaems?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 82 people named Kams, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
- How common is Kaems compared with other names?
- In American Samoa, Kaems is the 111th most common surname of 292 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kaems?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kaemsThe 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, “Kaems” — the 111th most common surname in American Samoa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.