How common is the surname Camp?

29,753 people in the United States had the surname Camp in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 10,377 Americans. It ranked 1,189th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Camp?

Anna Camp, American actress, followed by Bill Camp.

Where is the surname Camp most common?

Wikidata records people named Camp in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Is the surname Camp getting more or less common?

More common. 29,432 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 29,753 in 2010, up 1.1%.

Is Camp also a first name?

Yes. Camp is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.

The surname Camp

A surname, carried by 29,753 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex C510

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Camp is more common than 99.3% of them.

Origin

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Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 29,753 people named Camp in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 10,377 Americans. That is up 1.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 29,432.

#1,189

rank among US surnames

29,753

people in 2010

per 100,000 Americans

+1.1%

change since 2000 (was #1,087)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,180	Tracy	29,867	10,337
#1,181	Bacon	29,860	10,340
#1,182	Han	29,847	10,344
#1,183	Gibbons	29,824	10,352
#1,184	Mayfield	29,805	10,359
#1,185	Hoang	29,798	10,361
#1,186	Elder	29,796	10,362

Who is named Camp

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

85% of people named Camp identified as white (not Hispanic), 9.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 85%
Black (not Hispanic) 9.8%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Two or more races 1.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Camps

14 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Anna Camp
American actress, born 1982
Bill Camp
American actor, born 1964
Colleen Camp
American actress and film producer, born 1953
Jeremy Camp
American singer and songwriter, born 1978
Walter Camp
American football player and coach, college athletics administrator (1859-1925)
Hamilton Camp
British actor (1934–2005)
Dave Camp
American politician, born 1953
Darby Camp
American actress, born 2007
Joe Camp
American film director (1939–2024)
Charles Lewis Camp
American paleontologist and zoologist (1893–1975)
Shawn Camp
American baseball player, born 1975
Dean Fleischer Camp
American director and filmmaker, born 1982

Notable Camps come mostly from the United States (13) and the United Kingdom (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Camp

Camp has the Soundex code C510, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C510.

Questions

Where does the surname Camp come from?: Clipping.
How common is the surname Camp?: 29,753 people in the United States had the surname Camp in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 10,377 Americans. It ranked 1,189th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Camp?: In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Camp identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Camp?: Anna Camp, American actress, followed by Bill Camp.
Where is the surname Camp most common?: Wikidata records people named Camp in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Is the surname Camp getting more or less common?: More common. 29,432 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 29,753 in 2010, up 1.1%.
Is Camp also a first name?: Yes. Camp is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.