Kame
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A round hill or short ridge of sand or gravel deposited by a melting glacier
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɑːm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kame is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.7M(measured from records)
- CMCameroon≈1 in 30K
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 50K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 123 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A round hill or short ridge of sand or gravel deposited by a melting glacier.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Kame is read(measured from records)
Kame is one spelling over 3 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.
- English45%
A round hill or short ridge of sand or gravel deposited by a melting glacier.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
meaning unclear from OCR
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- Japanese10%
Rōmaji transcription of かめ
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French8.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kame in French.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Kame 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | Kame | 3 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Kame | 4 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 50K | 163 | — | — |
| KE Kenya | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 173K | listed | — | 7 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 286K | — | Kame | 8 |
| US United States | 192 | 1 in 1.7M | 204 | Kame | 123 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 97K | 1 | — | 4 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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)
Kame 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.
desolate
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
In pi, optative active singular of kamati (“to travel”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cbk, we (exclusive; we and not you)
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)
- Emily Kngwarreyeb. 1914AUnot in their usual nameAboriginal Australian artist from Utopia, Northern Territory (1910-1996)
- Mario Kameb. 1995ALassociation football player
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)
Attested in 17 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 204 | #95,802 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 192 | #95,115 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 187 | #91,404 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 163 | #2,540 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022) | — | 1 | #35 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Kame mean, and where does it come from?
- A round hill or short ridge of sand or gravel deposited by a melting glacier. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kame?
- A machine transcription gives /kɑːm/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kame have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Kame in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kame.
- How common is the name Kame?
- In the United States, the national register counted 192 people named Kame in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million 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/kameThe 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, “Kame”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.