Camel Family History
Camel Name Meaning
English and French: from the word denoting the animal, Norman
French came(i)l, Latin camelus, classical Greek
kamelos. The surname may have arisen from a nickname
denoting a clumsy or ill-tempered person. It may also be a
habitational name for someone who lived at a house with a sign
depicting a camel.English: from an assimilated pronunciation of
Campbell.English: possibly a habitational name from Queen
Camel and West Camel in Somerset, Camel(le) in Domesday Book
(1086), possibly a Celtic name from canto- ‘border’, ‘district’
and mel ‘bare hill’.Probably an Americanized
spelling of Kamel.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Camel Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Camel families
 32 - 62  11 - 31 |
 1 - 10  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Camel families
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Camel families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Camel census records
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Camel Family Origin
Camel Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Camel
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Camel Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Camel census records
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Camel Civil War Service Records
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