Last name: CAM
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Last name frequency
CAM : This last name is indexed 337,789 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
CAM : 1: Vietnamese: from the Chinese surname 甘 see Gan 1.2: Vietnamese (Cầm): from the Chinese surname 琴 see Qin 2.3: English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Caen in Calvados France early recorded as Cadum and Cadomum (see Cain).4: English: habitational name from one of two places called Cam in Gloucestershire and Yorkshire.5: English: nickname from an unrecorded Middle English cam (perhaps from Welsh cam) ‘crooked bent’ also ‘perverse’. Compare Middle English cammed ‘pug-nosed curved’ probably a derivative of cam.6: Scottish: nickname from Gaelic cam ‘crooked; one-eyed cross-eyed’.7: Breton (mainly Finistère; also Le Cam): nickname for a lame man from cam kamm ‘lame’.
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