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Cambria vs Camila

American parents have registered 123,976 Camilas since 1880, against 6,206 Cambrias. Camila is still ahead, with 6,599 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cambria against Camila, 1880 to 2025 0 2.5k 5k 7.5k 10k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cambria Camila

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 91 years in which either name was published, Camila for 80 years and Cambria for 11 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Cambria Camila
Total US births 6,206123,976
Most in one year 2758,171
Babies in 2025 966,599
Estimated living today 6,100123,000
Median age today 158
Peak year 20122020
Best rank 932nd girls11th girls
Rank in 2025 1,990th19th
First recorded 19631914
Girls / boys 6,206 / 0123,854 / 122

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 Cambrias alive today are over 15; half the Camilas are over 8. That is 7 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: Cambria and Camila.