Kamel

given name · French · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Kamel is a given name, most frequently recorded in Algeria, where it is the 63rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from kamei ‘camel’ (Latin camelus, Greek kamelos-, cf.

rarermore common
  • TNTunisia1 in 450◐
  • DZAlgeria1 in 1.7K
  • EGEgypt1 in 4K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈17K ●

across 8 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
295 ●

160K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 4.9K ◐

France

Spellings & scripts●

KamelLatin · French●138K records
คาเมลThai · Thai●38 records

Locally spelled คาเมล in TH Thailand.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

from kamei ‘camel’ (Latin camelus, Greek kamelos-, cf. Hebrew gamal). This was a common house sign in central Europe in the later Middle Ages, and the surname generally denoted someone who lived in a house bearing this sign. It may also have been a nickname for an ill-tempered or clumsy person, or as a Jewish name it was probably ornamental.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Kamel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DZ Algeria#6314,33316K rec.——Kamel91
FR France#52113,95581K rec.1 in 4.9K14KKamel295
EG Egypt#5209,71520K rec.——Kamel149
TN Tunisia#188,8515K rec.—1.6KKamel72
SY Syria#8614,5186.6K rec.——Kamel26
RO Romania#4101,82029 rec.——Kamel18
TR Türkiye—1,1311.7K rec.——Kamel18
US United States—1,11312K rec.1 in 299K2.2KKamel231
GB United Kingdom—1,074844 rec.——Kamel80
SA Saudi Arabia—896784 rec.——Kamel86
BE Belgium—635953 rec.—39Kamel36
SE Sweden—629474 rec.1 in 16K629—21

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • French138K61%
  • Arabic46K20%
  • English13K6%
  • Spanish4.8K2%
  • Portuguese1.5K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French137,64861%
Arabic46,09920%
English13,4316%
Spanish4,8242%
Portuguese1,5181%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Kamel is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name33K records spelled Kamel64 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Tunisia, Germany, Algeria

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Kaemel, Kàmél, Kämel, Kàmel, Kãmêl

  • Indonesian given name3.2K records spelled Kamel8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, Algeria, Tunisia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Ķāmël, َKamel, Kāmēl, Kāmêl, Ķämél

  • a separate given name2.8K records spelled Kamel4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Morocco, Algeria

    Also written Kamél, Kämel, Kāmel

  • Turkish given name2.3K records spelled Kamel17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, Algeria, Iraq

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Kãmēl, Kãmèl, Kämël, Kämęl, Kãmël

  • Polish given name1.0K records spelled Kamel9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, France, United Kingdom

    Also written Kãmęl, Kåmęl, Ķämĕľ, Käměl, Kãmêl

  • Danish given name962 records spelled Kamel36 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States, Algeria

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

    Also written Kãmël, Kàmël, Kämęl, Ķãmël, Kămel

  • Swahili given name858 records spelled Kamel4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Algeria, Türkiye, Tunisia

    Also written Kãmeĺ

  • Amharic given name786 records spelled Kamel4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Algeria, Tunisia, United States, Italy

    Also written ካመል, Kamèl, ካሜል

55 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Kamel 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.

  • from a personal name based on Arabic kdmil ‘perfect’, ‘complete’. Compare Kamal.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In German, house name; see Kamehl/Kämmel

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In Polish, synonym of wielbłąd (“camel”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Norwegian Bokmål, a camel (in particular the Bactrian camel, Camelus bactrianus)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swedish, camel (especially the Bactrian camel, Camelus bactrianus)

    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.

Over time●

01020301980199020002010202024 · 2012

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Kamel in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1973–2025
Yearrecords
19736
19746
19769
19777
19788
197914
19809
19816
19826
19839
19846
19856
198611
19879
198810
198910
19908
199115
199211
199312
199417
199516
199614
199813
199916
20006
200111
200216
200318
200413
200518
200611
200717
200820
200912
201014
201115
201224
20139
201411
20159
201614
201711
201813
201913
202015
202115
20229
202310
202412
20259

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 51 years between 1973–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1900195020002050Kamel Arekat, b. 1906Kamel Maghur, b. 1935Ahmad Tibi, b. 1958Kamel El Basha, b. 1962Kamel Daoud, b. 1970Kamel Belghazi, b. 1970Kamel Ouejdide, b. 1980Kamel Ghilas, b. 1984Kamel El-Torky, b. 2003

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●

Attested in 66 sources across 34 countries.

Official registers attesting Kamel
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202414K#1,368
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.2K#13,421
TN TunisiaINS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022)19801.6K#9
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.5K#18,633
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.1K#11,094
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000997#23,698
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—629#2,353
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—574#4,146
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—462#2,228
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—266#29,165
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—260#13,527
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—260#13,489

Reference works 7

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 269 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Kamel?
We estimate roughly 17 thousand people bear Kamel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Kamel have the most bearers?
Kamel is most frequently recorded in Algeria, where it is most often spelled kamel.
How common is Kamel compared with other names?
In Algeria, Kamel is the 63rd most common given name of 30,102 given names recorded there.
Is Kamel a male or female name?
Kamel is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Kamel mean?
Recorded meaning: from kamei ‘camel’ (Latin camelus, Greek kamelos-, cf.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Kamel” — the 63rd most common given name in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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