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Camaron vs Cameron

American parents have registered 344,896 Camerons since 1880, against 767 Camarons. Cameron is still ahead, with 4,962 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Camaron against Cameron, 1880 to 2025 0 4k 8k 12k 16k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Camaron Cameron

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Cameron has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1882 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1980, when Camaron had 13 and Cameron had 1,292.

Side by side

  Camaron Cameron
Total US births 767344,896
Most in one year 3814,363
Babies in 2025 under 54,962
Estimated living today 750335,000
Median age today 2622
Peak year 19912000
Best rank 1,983rd boys31st boys
Rank in 2025 unranked76th
First recorded 19751882
Girls / boys 52 / 71532,235 / 312,661

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Camarons alive today are over 26; half the Camerons are over 22. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Camaron Cameron
England and Wales 3541,373

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Camaron and Cameron.