Cameron
Cameron is ranked 66th among boys in 2024 (4,817 births). Its best rank was 31st, in 2000.
- Rank in 2024
- #66down 8 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 4,8170.28% of boys
- Peak year
- 200012,765 births
- Best rank
- #31in 2000
- Since 1882
- 339,893people given the name
The story in the numbers
308,280 boys have been named Cameron in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2000, with 12,765 births — 0.65% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 53 → 66).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2002, and the 2000s alone account for 31%. It has spent 105 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 38 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 31,613 girls have also been given it, 9.3% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Cameron | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 30 | |
| 1890s | 34 | |
| 1900s | 49 | |
| 1910s | 276 | |
| 1920s | 530 | |
| 1930s | 388 | |
| 1940s | 607 | |
| 1950s | 1,810 | |
| 1960s | 3,651 | |
| 1970s | 8,037 | |
| 1980s | 24,604 | |
| 1990s | 81,134 | |
| 2000s | 95,894 | |
| 2010s | 66,196 | |
| 2020s | 25,040 |
In 2000, its biggest year
Cameron was the 31st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2000 were Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 2000.
Names that rose and fell with Cameron
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Nikolaspeak 2004
- Garrisonpeak 1999
- Jalilpeak 2000
- Destinpeak 2001
- Avinashpeak 2003
- Dylanpeak 2001
- Markelpeak 1999
- Mckaypeak 1995
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.