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Camerin vs Cameron

American parents have registered 344,896 Camerons since 1880, against 820 Camerins. Cameron is still ahead, with 4,962 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Camerin 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 2007, when Camerin had 52 and Cameron had 10,087.

Side by side

  Camerin Cameron
Total US births 820344,896
Most in one year 5214,363
Babies in 2025 under 54,962
Estimated living today 810335,000
Median age today 2222
Peak year 20072000
Best rank 2,811th boys31st boys
Rank in 2025 unranked76th
First recorded 19831882
Girls / boys 236 / 58432,235 / 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.

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