Cameron
Cameron reached its high-water mark in 2000 at number 31, and has been recorded 344,896 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 76th. About 335,000 Camerons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 22.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Cameron boys named Cameron
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 344,896
- Estimated living today
- 335,000
- Median age today
- 22
- Peak year
- 2000
- Best rank
- 31st
- Rank in 2025
- 76th
- First recorded
- 1882
- Girls / boys
- 32,235 / 312,661
How old the living Camerons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 344,896 babies given the name since 1882, about 335,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 122,000 of them are children and 2,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2003 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
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.
Notable Camerons
- Cameron Diaz (born 1972)American actress and model
- Cameron Boyce (1999–2019)American actor
- Clair Cameron Patterson (1922–1995)American chemist and geochemist
- Cameron Crowe (born 1957)American filmmaker and journalist
- Cameron Monaghan (born 1993)American actor and model
- Cameron Borthwick-Jackson (born 1997)English association football player
- Cameron Jerome (born 1986)British footballer
- Cameron Burgess (born 1995)Australian-Scottish association football player
People named Cameron with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Cameron is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Cameron is most concentrated in New Hampshire (2.0×), Nevada (1.9×), Utah (1.8×), North Carolina (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2000
The most popular boys’ names the year Cameron peaked:
Cameron elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Cameron | 40,625 | 24th |
| Scotland boys | Cameron | 13,351 | 4th |
| New Zealand boys | Cameron | 7,756 | 15th |
| France boys | Cameron | 5,430 | 246th |
| Ireland boys | Cameron | 1,446 | 94th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Cameron | 1,318 | 34th |
| England and Wales girls | Cameron | 748 | 431st |
| France girls | Cameron | 500 | 1,154th |
| Belgium boys | Cameron | 391 | 468th |
| Scotland girls | Cameron | 175 | 258th |
| Switzerland boys | Cameron | 143 | 555th |
| Ireland girls | Cameron | 47 | 322nd |
| Northern Ireland girls | Cameron | 20 | 181st |
| Belgium girls | Cameron | 14 | 939th |
| Poland boys | Cameron | 6 birth registrations | 732nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Cameron: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Cameron | 60 | 0.005% | 582nd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Cameron | 82 | 0.019% | 254th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Cameron | 1 | 0.002% | 193rd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Cameron is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.03% of children were given it – 28 of them.
Cameron: rank by region
In 2025, Cameron was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Cameron | 461 | 5 |
In 2020, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Cameron appears in the lists for Province of Flemish Brabant (183rd) and Province of Hainaut (249th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Cameron among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Cameron | 38 | 74 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Cameron against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.