Family name origins & meanings
- English and French : from the word denoting the animal, Norman French came(i)l, Latin camelus, classical Greek kamēlos. 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 mēl ‘bare hill’.
- Probably an Americanized spelling of Kamel.