Cameron

A unisex name of Scottish origin, meaning crooked nose.

Babies a year
6,499
the US, 2017
Rarity
Common
among names in use
US popularity
#76
down from #66
UK popularity
#216
231 babies · unchanged

How Cameron has moved

US popularity rank, 2015–2025. Lower is more popular.
#48#66#84201520202025#76

View as table
YearUS rank
2015#56
2016#57
2017#60
2018#69
2019#67
2020#65
2021#62
2022#64
2023#58
2024#66
2025#76

Cameron by the numbers

In 2025, 231 babies in England and Wales were named Cameron. In the US, 6,499 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its American peak was 12,761 babies in 2000, making it a 2000s name.

At its height, in 2000, about 1 in 160 American babies born that year was called Cameron.

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Cameron as a share of American babies born, 1880 to 2008, at five year intervals. Source: US Social Security Administration.

Names that come from Cameron

Forms of Cameron in other languages, names built from it, and names that mean a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.

  • Kamryncrooked nose; a spelling variant of Cameron1,010 in the US (2017)
  • Camryncrooked nose; a modern respelling of Cameron881 in the US (2017)
  • Camroncrooked nose; a modern spelling variant of Cameron203 in the US (2017)
  • Kamroncrooked nose; spelling variant of Cameron195 in the US (2017)
  • Camrencrooked river; modern spelling variant of Cameron168 in the US (2017)
  • Kamrencrooked nose; a spelling variant of Cameron157 in the US (2017)
  • Camcrooked; from Scottish cam or diminutive of Cameron107 in the US (2017)
  • Camiecrooked nose; a form of Cameron8 in the US (2017)

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Cameron. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Cameryncrooked nose; a respelling of Cameron71 in the US (2017)
  • Camerencrooked nose; a spelling variant of Cameron18 in the US (2017)
  • Camerincrooked nose; a form of Cameron8 in the US (2017)
  • Camaron5 in the US (2017)
  • Cameoa carved gem or appearance; a form of Camilla10 in the US (2017)
  • Camrin9 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Cameron

Names that are said the same way as Cameron, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Kameroncrooked nose; modern spelling of Cameron1,379 in the US (2017)
  • Kameryncrooked nose; modern spelling of Cameron73 in the US (2017)
  • Camerancrooked nose; a modern respelling of Cameron70 in the US (2017)
  • Kameran17 in the US (2017)
  • Kameren9 in the US (2017)
  • Kamaron8 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Cameron

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