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Cambrie vs Camilla

American parents have registered 30,282 Camillas since 1880, against 2,392 Cambries. Camilla is still ahead, with 847 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cambrie against Camilla, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cambrie Camilla

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

Camilla has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2000, when Cambrie had 60 and Camilla had 166.

Side by side

  Cambrie Camilla
Total US births 2,39230,282
Most in one year 1891,224
Babies in 2025 98847
Estimated living today 2,40025,000
Median age today 1012
Peak year 20172019
Best rank 1,251st girls271st girls
Rank in 2025 1,962nd361st
First recorded 19861880
Girls / boys 2,392 / 030,276 / 6

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 Camillas alive today are over 12; half the Cambries are over 10. That is 2 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: Cambrie and Camilla.