The kam Surname
kam Name Meaning and History
- Dutch and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Dutch and Yiddish kam ‘comb’, hence a metonymic occupational name either for a comb maker or for a wool comber or fuller.
- Reduced form of Dutch van der Kam, from Middle Dutch kamme ‘brewery’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a brewery or a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in one.
- Reduced form of Dutch van Kam, a habitational name for someone from Chaam (formerly Kam) near Breda.
- Chinese
:
variant of Gan 1. - Chinese
: variant of
Jin 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Kam surname, Hong Kong>CAN | Wendy Kam | 4 |
| Ronald Kam, HI | Tammy | 0 |
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