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Camaron vs Camila

American parents have registered 123,976 Camilas since 1880, against 767 Camarons. Camila is still ahead, with 6,599 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Camaron against Camila, 1880 to 2025 0 2.5k 5k 7.5k 10k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Camaron Camila

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

Camila has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1914 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1980, when Camaron had 13 and Camila had 19.

Side by side

  Camaron Camila
Total US births 767123,976
Most in one year 388,171
Babies in 2025 under 56,599
Estimated living today 750123,000
Median age today 268
Peak year 19912020
Best rank 1,983rd boys11th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked19th
First recorded 19751914
Girls / boys 52 / 715123,854 / 122

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 Camilas are over 8. That is 18 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 Camila
England and Wales 35469

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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Related comparisons

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