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Cam

Discussion of the name

Cam is probably an Old Cornish masculine name derived from OCo (and Old Welsh) cam ‘crooked, bent’, perhaps originating as a byname or representing one adopted into Old English.

This name may be unique. There is no entry for it in the PASE corpus nor does it apparently occur as a simplex personal name other than the instances in Exon noted above, although it does occur in both simplex and compound forms in place-names.

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book: -

Spellings in Exon: Cames, Cāmi (both genitive)

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Cammi (genitive)

  Phillimore edition: Camm

  Alecto edition: -

People of this name

• Cam 1 - Cam father of Beorhtric and Beorhtwig, fl. before c. 1050