The Camargo surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 9,626 people carried this name — #3,689 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 30,700 people counted. That is up 48% from 6,520 in 2000.

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Where the name comes from

The origin of the Camargo surname

A surname from Portuguese or Spanish.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Camargo» (English), 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 12,381 people named Camargo 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 map

Where they live today

Buenos Aires Province 2,734
Mendoza 1,770
San Luis 1,749
Misiones 1,428
Santa Fe 757
San Juan 723
Córdoba 717
City of Buenos Aires 650

RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

62 people named Camargo live in Switzerland.

They live in 7 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Geneva 24
Vaud 14
Aargau 6
Lucerne 6
Valais 5
Zurich 4
Fribourg 3

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 print

Camargo in American newspapers,
1875–1902.

Newspaper page from Nashville Union And American carrying the name Camargo
Nashville Union And American 1875-05-07
Newspaper page from The Daily Morning Journal And Courier carrying the name Camargo
The Daily Morning Journal And Courier 1902-08-29

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 17,706 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Camargo in Australian newspapers,
1880s–1950s.

45 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Camargo. The most, 18, date from the 1950s.

Articles, by state

Queensland 27
New South Wales 10
ACT (Canberra) 3
Victoria 2
South Australia 1
Tasmania 1

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Camargo.

Who carried it

People named Camargo,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Sergio Camargo
    Sergio Camargo 1832–1907 · lawyer
  • Afonso Camargo
    Afonso Camargo 1873–1958 · politician
  • Xavier Camargo
    Xavier Camargo 1895–1974 · association football player
  • Eduardo Camargo
    Eduardo Camargo 1911–1993 · journalist
  • Edmur Péricles Camargo
    Edmur Péricles Camargo 1914– · journalist

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped — Eduardo Camargo: unknown author, CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0); Edmur Péricles Camargo: Comissão da Verdade do Estado de São Paulo, CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0); the others are in the public domain or CC0 · 153 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Camargo,
in the records of the United States.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States227 records

227 records of the Camargo name in the United States
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 194
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 20
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 12
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Raul M. Camargo

    Born 1908 in Texas. Enlisted 1942 at San Antonio; mason from Bexar County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1974, buried at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, Texas.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Juan Hipolito Camargo

    Born 1948; from Plainview, Texas. U.S. Army, infantryman; killed in action 1969 in Quang Tin, South Vietnam.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record Daniel J. Camargo

    U.S. Air Force veteran of the Korean War. Born 1933, died 1993; buried at Riverside National Cemetery, California.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)

Showing 3 of 227 records for Camargo in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain).

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