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Updated June 9, 2019

Girl name origins & meanings

  • Japanese : Joyful

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Kamen.
  • German : topographic name for someone who lived at a house with a stove, Middle High German kamin, kemin ‘chimney’, ‘fireplace’, ‘stove’ (Latin caminus).
  • German : probably a metonymic occupational name for a spice dealer, from Middle Low German kamin ‘caraway’.

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