Cameron

Romance is its anagram, OMG! As if I would fall in love with a guy with a crooked nose.

Sron is nose in Gaelic (Irish and Scots) pronounced "shrone". Cam is broken, twisted, bent, whatever. Put an adjective like cam before a noun like sron and the s gets a dot or an h which "hushes" the s getting Cam shron pronounced cam ron which in English adds an e for came er on. Meaning is broken or twisted nose which like cam beal (mouth) is twisted mouth like a snarl. When tribesmen were setting up shop, they wanted to be like Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor in jail: "We bad! We bad!" With a strut and an attitude. (Cam beal probably should be cam bheal like camval but the husher after a b might not apply.) It's like saying, "I have a broken nose but you should see what I did to the other guy." Or "I snarl and twist my mouth at my opponents." Elizabeth Peters in A Legend in Green Velvet has an archeologist go to Scotland and she meets the Camerons whose battle slogan had been, "Come, ye dogs, and get meat!" The English regarded the Scots as savages who did not fight like proper soldiers. In North America, the Scots fighters with the British would duck when shot at, crawl up to a position and sneak up behind you. The Native Americans were astonished: they fought like Indians. So Cameron is fine for a boy or a girl, like Ashley, Courtney, Kennedy, Kerry, Shannon, place names. Hamburg, Lorraine, Shleswig, Alsace, Paris: mixed opinion.

I know the majority believe this name stems from the Gaelic words 'cam' and 'sron' (crooked nose) or the lowlands meaning crooked hill (cam brun) or from Cambernon, however there is a brand of Scottish whisky called 'Glen Deveron' and also a river in Scotland called Deveron. Both list the meaning of Deveron as coming from two separate Gaelic words: 'dubh' and 'eireann' (black Ireland) so it would make more sense to me if Cameron stemmed from something as simple as that. Although Cam is usually always translated as 'crooked' so not sure about that. Just my opinion of course but if the Eron in Deveron means Eireann surely it should mean the same in Cameron.

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Other than that, using the 'brun/bron instead of sron, there's a place called Poulnabrone in Ireland from the Gaelic 'poll na mbron' (bro meaning quern stone/mill stone in Irish so could Cameron in its Cambron form be a reduced name originating from crooked quern stones lol. Who knows? It could be any of the many meanings attributed to it.

Kamran=kameron=kamron=Cameron=camron Originally is a Persian name for boys and means MAUDLIN and happy human.

I've read that Cameron also means "crooked hill" but it's not mentioned on BtN for some reason... is this other meaning incorrect?

Does NOT just mean "crooked nose".
Can mean "bend in a river".

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Also, the name of one of my sisters :)
I also know another girl with this name, but only one guy.
I think it can be very pretty, and seems to fit in with my sister's personality. Original, tomboyish, strong-minded, funny and cute...(and it's fun to tease her about it's alternate meaning, though her nose is straight and beautiful).

I have read in alternate sources that the full meaning of the name is "crooked nosed wagon maker", and of course there was a whole Scottish clan by the name of Cameron. That's a lot of crooked noses. Perhaps they didn't make very good wagons and were punched by a lot of irate Gaelic customers?

From the Gaelic cam bhrun, 'crooked hill'; 'cam' meaning crooked, and 'brun' meaning hill