The Camacho surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 67,893 people carried this name — #493 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 4,340 people counted. That is up 39% from 49,000 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Camacho surname
From a town in Granada, from the Celtic word camb meaning "twisted, disfigured;" see Old Irish camm (“bent, crooked”).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Camacho» (Spanish), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 16,009 people named Camacho live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 407 people named Camacho.
181 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 36 départements, most often Hauts-de-Seine.
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
291 people named Camacho live in Switzerland.
They live in 15 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.
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/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
48 people named Camacho is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Camacho,
with a public archive behind them.
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Francisco Camacho 1629–1698 · lay brother -
Diego Camacho y Ávila 1652–1712 · Catholic bishop -
Joaquín Camacho 1766–1816 · lawyer -
Juan Francisco Camacho de Alcorta 1813–1896 · politician -
Salvador Camacho 1827–1900 · lawyer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 225 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Camacho.
- Calvi 529 · U.S. census
- Calvin 9,412 · U.S. census
- Calvino 313 · U.S. census
- Calvo 6,883 · U.S. census
- Calzada 5,022 · U.S. census
- Cam 1,300 · U.S. census
- Camara 8,324 · U.S. census
- Cambas 102 · U.S. census
- Cambe 160 · U.S. census
- Cambier 182 · U.S. census
- Cambra 1,771 · U.S. census
- Cambray 442 · U.S. census
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