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Cam

#1,395 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Crooked, bent + nose, through Cameron

Cam has been given to 3,195 babies in the U.S. since 1892. In 2025 it ranked #1,395 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 131 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 87% boys, 13% girls all-time.

Babies named Cam, 2025

1 in 25,300

Cam over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Cam over time

In 2025, Cam went to 6% girls and 94% boys.

18922025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Cam: meaning, origin, and history

Crooked, bent + nose, through Cameron

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cam means

Cam belongs to the name family reached through Cam → Cameron. Its meaning is “crooked, bent + nose”.

Origin, language, and formation

Cam is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cameron.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Cam is pronounced /kæm/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,794 boys were recorded with the name Cam between 1892 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 131 in 2025; its best national rank was #906 in 1896.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,707 in 2020 to #1,395 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,647 in 2015 to #1,395 in 2025.

In the United States, 401 girls were recorded with the name Cam between 1946 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1961; its best national rank was #2,760 in 1961.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,387 in 2020 to #11,123 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #16,946 in 2015 to #11,123 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Cam?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 25,300
131 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 13,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,395
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
17,542 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cam sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 17,542 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cam. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cam was born before 2012 — so the typical Cam is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,597
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 31.7% of all recorded uses (886).

Is Cam rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+29
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+312
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+252
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.36×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (131)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#906
1896

Where Cam is used — boys

Across 2016–2025, Cam was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in 7,692 boys, against 1 in 24,354 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

113 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Iowa1 in 7,692
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 7,692
  3. 3Nebraska1 in 8,333
  4. 4Minnesota1 in 10,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 11,111
  6. 6Illinois1 in 14,286
  7. 7Arkansas1 in 20,000
  8. 8Mississippi1 in 20,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Where Cam is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Cam was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,334,398 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Cam has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cam around the world

Where Cam ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2023–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1991–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1994–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Cam

People whose public names include Cam, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Cam in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Cam. Linked forms have their own page here.

Cameron

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Cam by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,395
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 312
Best rank ever
#906
1896
Peak year
2025
131 that year
First recorded
1892
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,794
Count in 2025
131

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,123
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,264
Best rank ever
#2,760
1961
Peak year
1961
20 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
401
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Cam

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

CamdynCamrynCamariCamrenCamdonCamiloCampCamilleCamerenCamronCameranCamilloCamarCamerynCamrinCampbellCamarionCameoCamdenCamilaCamaronCamranCamdinCamerin

Names with a curve like Cam

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Cam, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ObadiahLinkSteeleRafeBennetWolfgangDaviMayerIsaDovKoltJenson

Sibling names for Cam

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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