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Cameron vs Camrie

American parents have registered 344,896 Camerons since 1880, against 502 Camries. Cameron is still ahead, with 4,962 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Cameron Camrie

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 2020, when Cameron had 5,678 and Camrie had 18.

Side by side

  Cameron Camrie
Total US births 344,896502
Most in one year 14,36324
Babies in 2025 4,9628
Estimated living today 335,000500
Median age today 2218
Peak year 20001999
Best rank 31st boys4,576th girls
Rank in 2025 76th10,917th
First recorded 18821989
Girls / boys 32,235 / 312,661502 / 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 Camries are over 18. That is 4 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: Cameron and Camrie.