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Cameran vs Cameron

American parents have registered 344,896 Camerons since 1880, against 2,287 Camerans. Cameron is still ahead, with 4,962 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Cameran 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 2004, when Cameran had 254 and Cameron had 10,165.

Side by side

  Cameran Cameron
Total US births 2,287344,896
Most in one year 25414,363
Babies in 2025 174,962
Estimated living today 2,300335,000
Median age today 1922
Peak year 20042000
Best rank 1,195th girls31st boys
Rank in 2025 8,860th76th
First recorded 19801882
Girls / boys 1,326 / 96132,235 / 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 Camerans are over 19. That is 3 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Cameran Cameron
England and Wales 11041,373

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: Cameran and Cameron.