# Cameron (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/cameron/  
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 |
| Origin | Scottish Gaelic |
| Meaning | “crooked”, “bent”, “nose”, “mouth” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈkæm(ə)ɹən/, 3 syllables |
| Nicknames | Cam, Cammie |
| Variant spellings | Kameron, Camron, Camryn, Kamryn |
| US babies named this | 344,896 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 312,661 / 32,235 (9% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 41,373, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Scottish Gaelic Camshròn, from cam (“crooked, bent”) + sròn (“nose”). Compare Campbell, from Scottish Gaelic cam (“crooked”) + beul (“mouth”).

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 707 | 441 |
| 2012 | 535 | 553 |
| 2013 | 511 | 567 |
| 2014 | 526 | 579 |
| 2015 | 586 | 532 |
| 2016 | 588 | 529 |
| 2017 | 577 | 536 |
| 2018 | 617 | 504 |
| 2019 | 565 | 542 |
| 2020 | 622 | 490 |
| 2021 | 668 | 468 |
| 2022 | 605 | 516 |
| 2023 | 640 | 478 |
| 2024 | 630 | 486 |
| 2025 | 614 | 487 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7,527 | 53 |
| 2012 | 7,376 | 54 |
| 2013 | 6,871 | 59 |
| 2014 | 7,069 | 53 |
| 2015 | 6,760 | 56 |
| 2016 | 6,861 | 57 |
| 2017 | 5,975 | 60 |
| 2018 | 5,313 | 69 |
| 2019 | 5,255 | 67 |
| 2020 | 5,056 | 65 |
| 2021 | 5,126 | 62 |
| 2022 | 4,968 | 64 |
| 2023 | 5,089 | 58 |
| 2024 | 4,834 | 66 |
| 2025 | 4,348 | 76 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 21 | 1,438 |
| 2012 | 22 | 1,428 |
| 2013 | 5 | 4,050 |
| 2014 | 7 | 3,160 |
| 2015 | 16 | 1,783 |
| 2016 | 11 | 2,367 |
| 2017 | 9 | 2,706 |
| 2018 | 9 | 2,674 |
| 2019 | 9 | 2,643 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,899 |
| 2021 | 7 | 3,192 |
| 2022 | 10 | 2,488 |
| 2023 | 12 | 2,201 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,843 |
| 2025 | 7 | 3,333 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 848 | 77 |
| 2012 | 849 | 77 |
| 2013 | 659 | 93 |
| 2014 | 513 | 123 |
| 2015 | 451 | 132 |
| 2016 | 373 | 158 |
| 2017 | 369 | 157 |
| 2018 | 299 | 177 |
| 2019 | 260 | 197 |
| 2020 | 262 | 198 |
| 2021 | 284 | 194 |
| 2022 | 259 | 199 |
| 2023 | 270 | 186 |
| 2024 | 228 | 216 |
| 2025 | 231 | 216 |

## In other languages

- Arabic: كَامِيرُون
- Armenian: Քեմերոն
- Bulgarian: Ка́мерън
- Chinese: 卡梅倫 /卡梅伦
- Greek: Κάμερον
- Hebrew: קמרון
- Hindi: कॅमेरॉन
- Japanese: キャメロン
- Korean: 캐머런
- Russian: Кэ́мерон, Ка́мерон
- Ukrainian: Ка́мерон

## People named Cameron

- Cameron Diaz, American actress and model
- Cameron Boyce, American actor (1999–2019)
- Clair Cameron Patterson, American chemist and geochemist (1922–1995)
- Cameron Crowe, American filmmaker and journalist (born 1957)
- Cameron Monaghan, American actor and model
- Cameron Borthwick-Jackson, English association football player (born 1997)
- Cameron Jerome, British footballer (born 1986)
- Cameron Burgess, Australian-Scottish association football player (born 1995)
- Cameron McEvoy, Australian swimmer
- Cameron Mitchell, American actor (1918–1994)
- Cameron Carter-Vickers, American-British soccer player
- Cameron Norrie, British tennis player (born 1995)

## 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.