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Cambria vs Camilla

American parents have registered 30,282 Camillas since 1880, against 6,206 Cambrias. Camilla is still ahead, with 847 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Cambria Camilla

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 1999, when Cambria had 110 and Camilla had 153.

Side by side

  Cambria Camilla
Total US births 6,20630,282
Most in one year 2751,224
Babies in 2025 96847
Estimated living today 6,10025,000
Median age today 1512
Peak year 20122019
Best rank 932nd girls271st girls
Rank in 2025 1,990th361st
First recorded 19631880
Girls / boys 6,206 / 030,276 / 6

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 Camillas are over 12. That is 3 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 Camilla.