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Cameron vs Camron

American parents have registered 344,896 Camerons since 1880, against 15,212 Camrons. Cameron is still ahead, with 4,962 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Cameron Camron

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 2006, when Cameron had 9,990 and Camron had 901.

Side by side

  Cameron Camron
Total US births 344,89615,212
Most in one year 14,363969
Babies in 2025 4,96272
Estimated living today 335,00015,000
Median age today 2221
Peak year 20002003
Best rank 31st boys316th boys
Rank in 2025 76th2,056th
First recorded 18821958
Girls / boys 32,235 / 312,661399 / 14,813

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.

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 Camron
England and Wales 41,373975
Scotland 13,5267
France 5,930630
Ireland 1,4935

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