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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish : topographic name for someone who lived by a thoroughfare, from camin ‘path’, ‘way’ (from Late Latin caminus), or a habitational name from any of numerous places named with this word.
  • Italian : topographic name from camino ‘root’, ‘hearth’, ‘furnace’, or ‘olive press’.

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