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Camille vs Camry

American parents have registered 77,120 Camilles since 1880, against 1,534 Camrys. Camille is still ahead, with 1,308 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Camille 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

Camille 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 Camille had 1,005 and Camry had 113.

Side by side

  Camille Camry
Total US births 77,1201,534
Most in one year 1,344113
Babies in 2025 1,30816
Estimated living today 67,0001,500
Median age today 2725
Peak year 20121997
Best rank 237th girls1,616th girls
Rank in 2025 240th6,838th
First recorded 18801985
Girls / boys 75,722 / 1,3981,409 / 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 Camilles alive today are over 27; half the Camrys are over 25. That is 2 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: Camille and Camry.