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Cameron vs Camily

American parents have registered 344,896 Camerons since 1880, against 43 Camilys. Cameron is still ahead, with 4,962 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Cameron Camily

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 2003, when Cameron had 11,007 and Camily had 17.

Side by side

  Cameron Camily
Total US births 344,89643
Most in one year 14,36317
Babies in 2025 4,962under 5
Estimated living today 335,00040
Median age today 2221
Peak year 20002003
Best rank 31st boys6,576th girls
Rank in 2025 76thunranked
First recorded 18822003
Girls / boys 32,235 / 312,66143 / 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.

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