Camm

See also: camm

English

Etymology

• As an English and Norman surname, from Caen in Normandy.
• Also as an English surname, named for the Cam river, from the Celtic root of Old Irish camm (“crooked, bent”). This adjective also has surname derivatives from Scottish Gaelic and Welsh.
• As a German surname, spelling variant of Kamm.

Proper noun

Camm

1. A surname.
2. An unincorporated community in Buckingham County, Virginia, United States.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Camm”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 275.