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Camilla vs Camry

American parents have registered 30,282 Camillas since 1880, against 1,534 Camrys. Camilla is still ahead, with 847 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Camilla Camry

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

Camilla has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1997, when Camilla had 165 and Camry had 113.

Side by side

  Camilla Camry
Total US births 30,2821,534
Most in one year 1,224113
Babies in 2025 84716
Estimated living today 25,0001,500
Median age today 1225
Peak year 20191997
Best rank 271st girls1,616th girls
Rank in 2025 361st6,838th
First recorded 18801985
Girls / boys 30,276 / 61,409 / 125

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 Camrys alive today are over 25; half the Camillas are over 12. That is 13 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: Camilla and Camry.