Roman type
The location is attested as "Camaracum" in the 4th century in the Peutinger Table and "Cameracum" (no date). It recognises the Gallo-Roman suffix of Celtic origin "place of", "property of", preceded by an element not identified with certainty. Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing offered the Gallo-Roman type name of a person called Camarus.