# Cam (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/cam/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /kæm/, 1 syllable |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,195 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,794 / 401 (13% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Shortening.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 7 | 8,147 |
| 1980 | 7 | 8,270 |
| 1981 | 10 | 6,390 |
| 1984 | 5 | 10,628 |
| 1986 | 7 | 8,651 |
| 1988 | 5 | 12,070 |
| 2011 | 8 | 12,375 |
| 2015 | 5 | 16,952 |
| 2016 | 5 | 16,734 |
| 2017 | 5 | 16,342 |
| 2019 | 5 | 15,992 |
| 2020 | 7 | 12,392 |
| 2021 | 5 | 15,707 |
| 2024 | 10 | 9,683 |
| 2025 | 8 | 11,127 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 83 | 1,757 |
| 2012 | 100 | 1,576 |
| 2013 | 82 | 1,766 |
| 2014 | 95 | 1,629 |
| 2015 | 96 | 1,647 |
| 2016 | 103 | 1,587 |
| 2017 | 104 | 1,569 |
| 2018 | 76 | 1,938 |
| 2019 | 97 | 1,662 |
| 2020 | 91 | 1,707 |
| 2021 | 120 | 1,491 |
| 2022 | 122 | 1,479 |
| 2023 | 128 | 1,424 |
| 2024 | 129 | 1,424 |
| 2025 | 131 | 1,395 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 | 4,991 |

## People named Cam

- Cam Gigandet, American actor
- Cam Fowler, Canadian-born American ice hockey player
- Cam Neely, Canadian ice hockey player
- Cam Ward, Canadian ice hockey player
- Cam Whitmore, American basketball player (born 2004)
- Cam Barker, Canadian ice hockey player
- Cam Janssen, American ice hockey player
- Cam Spencer, college basketball player (2020–2020) Loyola (MD)
- Cam Jurgens, American football center (born 1999)
- Cam Pipes, Canadian singer and bassist

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.