Cam Family History
Cam Name Meaning
Vietnamese: from the Chinese surname 甘 see Gan Vietnamese (Cầm): from the Chinese surname 琴 see Qin English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Caen in Calvados France early recorded as Cadum and Cadomum (see Cain ). English: habitational name from one of two places called Cam in Gloucestershire and Yorkshire. English: nickname from an unrecorded Middle English cam (perhaps from Welsh cam) ‘crooked bent’ also ‘perverse’. Compare Middle English cammed ‘pug-nosed curved’ probably a derivative of cam. Scottish: nickname from Gaelic cam ‘crooked; one-eyed cross-eyed’.7: Breton (mainly Finistère; also Le Cam): nickname for a lame man from cam kamm ‘lame’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022