Kams
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kəmz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kams is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 25K(inferred from the name graph)
- CMCameroon≈1 in 53K
- FIFinland1 in 199K
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 Kams 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.
- Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
≈530 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kaems in AS American Samoa.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kams 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Kams | 1 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Kams | 7 |
| BR Brazil | — | 82 | 1 in 2.6M | 82 | — | — |
| US United States | — | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 4.6M | — | Kams | 61 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Kams | 19 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 55 | Kams | 4 |
| FI Finland | — | 28 | 1 in 199K | 28 | — | — |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 501K | — | Kams | 1 |
| AS American Samoa | #111 | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 9.1K | — | Kaems | 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the ee-stat-nimed register. 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)
Kams 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 Swedish, indefinite genitive singular of kam
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, aube
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
In Latvian, Atsevišķs (kādas vielas, masas, parasti augsnes) gabals, pika; kukurznis
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Rudzu, miežu, zirņu un pupu miltu maisījums; kama 1
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Katla rokturis
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Eva Kamsb. 1972EEEstonian entrepreneur and local politician (born 1972)
- Gert Kamsb. 1985EEEstonian association football player (born 1985)
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 10 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 82 | #73,426 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 55 | #1,697 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 45 | #2,190 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 28 | #39,347 |
Reference works 3
- 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
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
- How do you pronounce Kams?
- A machine transcription gives /kəmz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kams have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 526 people named Kams in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kams.
- How common is the name Kams?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 82 people named Kams, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
- How common is Kams compared with other names?
- In American Samoa, Kams is the 111th most common surname of 292 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kams?
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/kamsThe 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, “Kams” — the 111th most common surname in American Samoa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.