Kamo
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Japanese: Rōmaji transcription of かも
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kamo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Armenia than in any other country.
- AMArmenia≈1 in 653as Կամո(inferred from the name graph)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 23K
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 90K
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 Kamo 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.
- Armenia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 40 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,600 named Կամո, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Կամո in AM Armenia.
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(measured from records)
Rōmaji transcription of かも
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Kamo is read(measured from records)
Kamo is one spelling over 4 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.
- Hindi28%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kamo in Hindi.
- Turkish8.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kamo in Turkish.
- Japanese8.8%
Rōmaji transcription of かも
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English7.6%
Any of various places in Japan, most notably Kamo, Niigata.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Kamo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AM Armenia | #123 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 653 | — | Կամո | 40 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Kamo | 4 |
| GE Georgia | #976 | 296as კამო | 1 in 14K | 296 | Kamo | 9 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Kamo | 8 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 90K | listed | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | — | 44 | 1 in 870K | 44 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 4 | 1 in 188K | 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: Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Kamo is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Kurdish, Wish, desire
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In Serbo-Croatian, where (to), in which direction, whither
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ami, 2pl. nominative, you all
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In zlw-opl, where (to which place)
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)
- Kamo no Chōmeib. 1155JPJapanese poet
- Masao Kamob. 1876JPJapanese engineer
- Takeshi Kamob. 1915JPJapanese association football player (1915-2004)
- Sachiko Kamob. 1926JPJapanese tennis player
- Kamo Mototerub. 1930JPJapanese horticulturist
- Kosei Kamob. 1932JPJapanese tennis player (1932–2017)
- Shu Kamob. 1939JPJapanese association football player and manager
- Jun Kamob. 1947JPJapanese scientist
- Tomoki Kamob. 1972JPJapanese political scientist (1972-)
- Akira Kamob. 1981JPJapanese legal counsel
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 34 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 4
- 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)
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 Kamo mean, and where does it come from?
- Rōmaji transcription of かも Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Kamo a male or female name?
- Kamo is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Kamo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.6 thousand people named Կամո in Armenia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kamo?
- In Poland, the national register counted 44 people named Kamo in 2026, about 1 in 870 thousand residents.
- How common is Kamo compared with other names?
- In Armenia, Kamo is the 123rd most common given name of 7,577 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kamo?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kamoThe 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, “Kamo” — the 123rd most common given name in Armenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.