Kamin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname; in Polish context from a settlement name (kamień 'stone'), with possible competition from a patronymic origin
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkæˌmɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kamin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 83K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 135K
- SISlovenia1 in 19K
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
- 259 (measured from records)
- 1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Toponymic surname; in Polish context from a settlement name (kamień 'stone'), with possible competition from a patronymic origin.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kamin 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 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Kamin | 2 |
| US United States | 2,455 | 1 in 135K | 2.5K | Kamin | 259 |
| DE Germany | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Kamin | 70 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 40K | 138 | — | — |
| MY Malaysia | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Kamin | 15 |
| SI Slovenia | 113 | 1 in 19K | 113 | — | 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; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Kamin 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, from Slavic kamen 'stone'; also place-name forms
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
topographic name for someone who lived at a house with a stove. Middle High German kamin, kemin ‘chimney’, ‘fireplace’, ‘stove’ (Latin caminus).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
probably a metonymic occupational name for a spice dealer, from Middle Low German kamin ‘caraway’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, fireplace
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Latent
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
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)
- Leon Kaminb. 1927USAmerican psychologist (1927-2017)
- Shoshana Kaminb. 1930ILIsraeli mathematician
- Bebe Kaminb. 1943ARArgentinian film director
- Ben Kaminb. 1953USAmerican rabbi
- Philip Kaminb. 1955CACanadian photographer
- Tanja Kaminb. 1973SIresearcher
- Matej KaminSIresearcher
- Franc KaminSIresearcher
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 31 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.5K | #12,607 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.6K | #16,400 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #17,798 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 138 | #2,890 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 113 | #3,960 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Kamin mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname; in Polish context from a settlement name (kamień 'stone'), with possible competition from a patronymic origin. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Kamin?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkæˌmɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kamin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Kamin in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kamin.
- Where is Kamin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kamin is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 19 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kamin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,455 people named Kamin in 2010, about 1 in 135 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kaminThe 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, “Kamin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.