Cameron

Cameron is the 625th most common surname in the United States, shared by 52,870 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 5,653.

By the numbers

People: 52,870
Rank: 625th
How common: 1 in 5,653
Per 100,000: 17.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

From Scottish Gaelic Camshròn, from cam (“crooked, bent”) + sròn (“nose”). Compare Campbell, from + beul (“mouth”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Cameron described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 72.1%
Black, not Hispanic 18.2%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Cameron

David Cameron (born 1966)British politician
James Cameron (born 1954)Canadian filmmaker and explorer
Dove Cameron (born 1996)American actress and singer
Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879)British photographer
Candace Cameron Bure (born 1976)American actress, producer, author, and talk show panelist, as well as star on "Full House"
Kirk Cameron (born 1970)American actor
Suzy Amis Cameron (born 1962)American actress and model
Cody Cameron (born 1970)American director and storyboard artist

People named Cameron with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Cameron

Also a first name

Cameron has been given to 344,896 American babies as a first name since 1882, peaking in 2000. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.