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Cambry vs Camille

American parents have registered 77,120 Camilles since 1880, against 819 Cambrys. Camille is still ahead, with 1,308 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Cambry Camille

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

Camille 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 2008, when Cambry had 42 and Camille had 1,108.

Side by side

  Cambry Camille
Total US births 81977,120
Most in one year 491,344
Babies in 2025 281,308
Estimated living today 81067,000
Median age today 1327
Peak year 20142012
Best rank 3,272nd girls237th girls
Rank in 2025 4,758th240th
First recorded 19871880
Girls / boys 819 / 075,722 / 1,398

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 Camilles alive today are over 27; half the Cambrys are over 13. That is 14 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: Cambry and Camille.