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Cameron vs Camie

American parents have registered 344,896 Camerons since 1880, against 1,624 Camies. Cameron is still ahead, with 4,962 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Cameron Camie

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 1967, when Cameron had 393 and Camie had 44.

Side by side

  Cameron Camie
Total US births 344,8961,624
Most in one year 14,36350
Babies in 2025 4,9626
Estimated living today 335,0001,500
Median age today 2245
Peak year 20001968
Best rank 31st boys1,625th girls
Rank in 2025 76th13,208th
First recorded 18821947
Girls / boys 32,235 / 312,6611,624 / 0

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 Camies alive today are over 45; half the Camerons are over 22. That is 23 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 Cameron Camie
France 5,93030
Belgium 40557
Switzerland 14317

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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Related comparisons

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