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Camilla vs Cammie

American parents have registered 30,282 Camillas since 1880, against 3,974 Cammies. Camilla is still ahead, with 847 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Camilla against Cammie, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Camilla Cammie

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

Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Camilla for 145 years and Cammie for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Camilla Cammie
Total US births 30,2823,974
Most in one year 1,224145
Babies in 2025 84710
Estimated living today 25,0003,100
Median age today 1249
Peak year 20191968
Best rank 271st girls846th girls
Rank in 2025 361st9,457th
First recorded 18801881
Girls / boys 30,276 / 63,946 / 28

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 Cammies alive today are over 49; half the Camillas are over 12. That is 37 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 Camilla Cammie
England and Wales 1,84716
France 1,23020

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: Camilla and Cammie.