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Camilla vs Camreigh

American parents have registered 30,282 Camillas since 1880, against 223 Camreighs. Camilla is still ahead, with 847 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Camilla Camreigh

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 2017, when Camilla had 1,060 and Camreigh had 91.

Side by side

  Camilla Camreigh
Total US births 30,282223
Most in one year 1,22491
Babies in 2025 847under 5
Estimated living today 25,000220
Median age today 127
Peak year 20192017
Best rank 271st girls2,108th girls
Rank in 2025 361stunranked
First recorded 18802017
Girls / boys 30,276 / 6223 / 0

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 Camillas alive today are over 12; half the Camreighs are over 7. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Camilla and Camreigh.