# Camm (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/camm/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 502 |
| US rank (2010) | 43,077 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 615,031 people |
| Change since 2000 | -1.2% (508 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As an English and Norman surname, from Caen in Normandy. * Also as an English surname, named for the Cam river, from the Celtic root of Old Irish camm (“crooked, bent”). This adjective also has surname derivatives from Scottish Gaelic and Welsh. * As a German surname, spelling variant of Kamm.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Camm in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 80% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 14% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.2% |
| Two or more races | 3.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Camm in the United Kingdom.

## People named Camm

- Sydney Camm, British aeronautical engineer (1893–1966)

## Similar surnames

Cam, Cham, Chen, Cohen, Chan, Cain, Conway, Cano, Chaney, Cowan, Chin, Coon.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.