KaMeN

loc · Latin script

Meaning: Slavic (e.g. Czech Kamen or Slovak Kamen), German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from a Slavic word meaning ‘stone’ or ‘rock’ (see Kamin), either directly, as a nickname, topographic name, or ornamental na

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

KaMeN is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Germany.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany
  • PLPoland

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.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
245 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Slavic (e.g. Czech Kamen or Slovak Kamen), German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from a Slavic word meaning ‘stone’ or ‘rock’ (see Kamin), either directly, as a nickname, topographic name, or ornamental name, or indirectly as a habitational name for someone from Chemnitz (Slavic Kamenice), near the Czech border with Germany, or from one of the many other places in eastern Europe named with this word.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

KaMeN counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where KaMeN is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany——KaMeN51
PL Poland—26KaMeN1
US United States—1.4K—245
ES Spain—57—14
FI Finland—36—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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

KaMeN is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia

    Also written Камен, Kámen

  • Turkish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Demircili, Demirçili

  • Russian given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Камен, Камэн, Camen, Камень, Çamen

51 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

KaMeN 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 German, first/third-person plural preterite of kommen

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In ibl, woven bamboo sleeping mat

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Czech, genitive plural of kamna

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In kyj, sleeping mat

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In lid, men’s house

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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)

190019201940196019802000Martin Kamen, b. 1913Jack Kamen, b. 1920Henry Kamen, b. 1936Robert Mark Kamen, b. 1947Michael Kamen, b. 1948Dean Kamen, b. 1951Nick Kamen, b. 1962Kamen Donev, b. 1971Kamen Kalev, b. 1975Kamen Chadschiew, b. 1991

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 33 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting KaMeN
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.4K#18,928
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.1K#22,637
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020884#28,656
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#344,615
US United Stateswru 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
  • Wikipedia surname 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 KaMeN mean, and where does it come from?
Slavic (e.g. Czech Kamen or Slovak Kamen), German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from a Slavic word meaning ‘stone’ or ‘rock’ (see Kamin), either directly, as a nickname, topographic name, or ornamental na… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does KaMeN have the most bearers?
KaMeN is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled KaMeN.

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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, “KaMeN”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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