Kaman
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Dağların doruğuna yakın olan yerler
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kaman is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
- HUHungary≈1 in 40K
- PGPapua New Guinea≈1 in 49K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 45 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kámán in HU Hungary.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Dağların doruğuna yakın olan yerler.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kaman 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Kaman | 45 |
| US United States | 555 | 1 in 599K | 555 | — | 27 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 67K | 193 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 255 | 1 in 68K | 255 | — | 10 |
| HU Hungary | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Kámán | 35 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 49K | 16 | — | — |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). 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)
Kaman is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Azerbaijani, synonym of kamança (“kamancheh”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Quechua, third-person singular present indicative of kamay
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nrk, future/imperative of kama
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, genitive singular of kama
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kcn, also, too
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)
- Charles Kamanb. 1919USAmerican businessman, engineer and inventor (1919–2011)
- Miroslav Kamanb. 1946CZCzech actor
- Rob Kamanb. 1960NLDutch martial artist
- Chris Kamanb. 1982USGerman American basketball player
- Murat Kamanb. 1985TRactor
- Emrah Kamanb. 1985TRTurkish actor and screenwriter (born 1985)
- Kaman Kongb. 1994CNHong Kong actress
- Kritsada Kamanb. 1999THassociation football player
- Steven Kamanfilm cinematographer
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 35 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 555 | #39,607 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 538 | #43,268 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 470 | #43,290 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 255 | #8,122 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 193 | #2,177 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022) | — | 16 | #20 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Kaman mean?
- Recorded meaning: Dağların doruğuna yakın olan yerler.
- In which country does Kaman have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.9 thousand people named Kaman in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kaman.
- How common is the name Kaman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 555 people named Kaman in 2010, about 1 in 599 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kamanThe 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, “Kaman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.