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Camerin vs Camila

American parents have registered 123,976 Camilas since 1880, against 820 Camerins. Camila is still ahead, with 6,599 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Camerin against Camila, 1880 to 2025 0 2.5k 5k 7.5k 10k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Camerin Camila

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

Camila has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1914 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1983, when Camerin had 6 and Camila had 20.

Side by side

  Camerin Camila
Total US births 820123,976
Most in one year 528,171
Babies in 2025 under 56,599
Estimated living today 810123,000
Median age today 228
Peak year 20072020
Best rank 2,811th boys11th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked19th
First recorded 19831914
Girls / boys 236 / 584123,854 / 122

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 Camerins alive today are over 22; half the Camilas are over 8. That is 14 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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