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Cameron vs Camora

American parents have registered 344,896 Camerons since 1880, against 575 Camoras. Cameron is still ahead, with 4,962 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Cameron Camora

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 2008, when Cameron had 9,357 and Camora had 54.

Side by side

  Cameron Camora
Total US births 344,896575
Most in one year 14,36354
Babies in 2025 4,96220
Estimated living today 335,000570
Median age today 2211
Peak year 20002008
Best rank 31st boys3,120th girls
Rank in 2025 76th5,917th
First recorded 18822005
Girls / boys 32,235 / 312,661575 / 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 Camerons alive today are over 22; half the Camoras are over 11. That is 11 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.

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