The Cam surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 978 people carried this name — #24,061 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 277,800 people counted.
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In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 800 people named Cam.
57 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 34 départements, most often Finistère.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
218 people named Cam live in Switzerland.
They live in 9 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 75 people named Cam live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in East Flanders.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Cam.
- Calvetti 364 · U.S. census
- Calvi 560 · U.S. census
- Calvin 8,907 · U.S. census
- Calvino 276 · U.S. census
- Calvo 5,218 · U.S. census
- Calzada 3,607 · U.S. census
- Camacho 49,000 · U.S. census
- Camara 6,188 · U.S. census
- Cambas 100 · U.S. census
- Cambe 159 · U.S. census
- Cambier 169 · U.S. census
- Cambra 1,639 · U.S. census
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