Cameo
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cameo has been given to 1,719 babies in the U.S. since 1957. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1992, with 68 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 87% girls, 13% boys all-time.
Babies named Cameo, 2020
1 in 557,000
Cameo over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Cameo over time
In 2020, Cameo went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
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.
How common is Cameo?
Cameo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2020
- 1 in 557,000
- 6 of 3,342,313 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 269,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2020
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 386,120 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cameo sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 386,120 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cameo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Cameos were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cameo was born before 1987 — so the typical Cameo is around 38 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 33.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 22.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,501
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 33.4% of all recorded uses (502).
Is Cameo 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1992 (68)
- Years since peak
- 33
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.1% average annual change
Spellings of Cameo
Cameo is not the most common spelling — Carmen is, with 37.7% against Cameo's 0.40%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Cameo is used
Across 1910–2025, Cameo was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 240,468 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2Michigan1 in —
- 3Minnesota1 in —
- 4North Carolina1 in —
- 5Ohio1 in —
- 6Texas1 in —
- 7Utah1 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. Cameo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Cameo around the world
Where Cameo 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 & Wales1996–2001#3,998in 2001
- Canada1992–1993#2,426in 1993
- South Australia2005–2005#775in 2005
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.
Cameo by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Cameo
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cameo
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.