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Cameran vs Camilla

American parents have registered 30,282 Camillas since 1880, against 2,287 Camerans. Camilla is still ahead, with 847 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Cameran 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 2004, when Cameran had 254 and Camilla had 265.

Side by side

  Cameran Camilla
Total US births 2,28730,282
Most in one year 2541,224
Babies in 2025 17847
Estimated living today 2,30025,000
Median age today 1912
Peak year 20042019
Best rank 1,195th girls271st girls
Rank in 2025 8,860th361st
First recorded 19801880
Girls / boys 1,326 / 96130,276 / 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 Camerans alive today are over 19; half the Camillas are over 12. That is 7 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 Camilla
England and Wales 1101,847

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 Camilla.