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Cambree vs Cameron

American parents have registered 344,896 Camerons since 1880, against 2,334 Cambrees. Cameron is still ahead, with 4,962 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Cambree 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 2013, when Cambree had 204 and Cameron had 7,382.

Side by side

  Cambree Cameron
Total US births 2,334344,896
Most in one year 20414,363
Babies in 2025 624,962
Estimated living today 2,300335,000
Median age today 1222
Peak year 20132000
Best rank 1,178th girls31st boys
Rank in 2025 2,751st76th
First recorded 19921882
Girls / boys 2,334 / 032,235 / 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 Camerons alive today are over 22; half the Cambrees are over 12. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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