CAM, Meaning of Name (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Tuesday, November 01, 2011, 14:45 (4848 days ago) @ Simona Cam

Hi Simona,
first welcome to this fantastic resource site and forum. It may well be worth you searching this hugely informative site for the Cam/Camm/Chamm/Kam etc names, all of which are shown within the PRs. Don't forget spelling variations such as this often occurred even as recent as the early 20th century. You can search both within this Forum and also via the separate search icon on the lefthand menubar of the site's home page. Hopefully this might give you more information wrt the name.

I suggest that sadly for you it's unlikely that Carole will see your post. If you look at her username on the thread its not appearing as blue, this means she's not been active on the site for over 12 months, in fact her post was 477 days ago as you can see. If the name had been a blue hyperlink you could have sent a private message directly into her home email account, often more effective at getting a reply, but sadly not now as it's been disabled thro lack of use.
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If you try contacting the sites owners (see "Contact Us" in top blue menu bar) its possible they may be able to help you).

Re your Cam surname I suspect from a British viewpoint the more recent Cams/Camms are linked to people living near the two River Cams, the more famous one running through Cambridge in East Anglia and the smaller but perfectly formed one in North Gloucestershire. Indeed this interesting website compiled from 1881 Census Population Distribution Data shows this to be so
http://gbnames.publicprofiler.org/Map.aspx?name=CAMM&year=1881&altyear=1998&...

For researching British surnames this British website can be of interest, as you can see the Camm name is recorded way back in Domesday times. Apparently the word Cam meant "crooked" (as in shape, not personal trait!).
http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/camm

Regarding spelling variations I can well believe the name could also have Asian origins too (Kham ??) which might be particularly relevant for you in Eastern Europe ?.

Hope this helps, good luck, Jeff

(PS Fwiw the most famous Cam I know, speaking as a mechanical engineer, is Sir Sidney Camm, the designer of famous Hawker military aircraft of WW2 such as the Hurricane, which contrary to popular myth re the Spitfire had an equally significant effect in the Battle of Britain).