Cameo - Meaning of Cameo

What does Cameo mean?

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Cameo

[ 3 syll. ca-meo, cam-eo ] The baby girl name Cameo is also used as a boy name. It is pronounced KAEM-iy-ow- †. Cameo's origin and use are both in the English language. This is an English jewelry name cameo from the Italian element cammeo, which is either from the Arabic qamaail or the Old Persian chumahan.

Forms of Cameo include the names Cami, Camio, Cammeo, Kameo, and Kamio.

See also the related categories, persian, english, element, italian, flower, and arabic.

Cameo is not often used as a baby girl name. It is not in the top 1000 names.

Baby names that sound like Cameo include Camio, Cammeo, Kameo, Camille, Camino, Camiño, Carrianne, Casina, Ceinwen, Chania, Chashmona, Chazona, Chione, Coseema, Cosima, Cozeema, Cusean, Cyma, Kachina, and Kagamee.

† Pronunciation for Cameo: K as in "key (K.IY)" ; AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; M as in "me (M.IY)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)" ; OW as in "oak (OW.K)"