Camp

#4,269 in 2025Boys' name

Crooked + mouth, through Campbell

Camp has been given to 183 babies in the U.S. since 2005. In 2025 it ranked #4,269 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Camp, 2025

1 in 138,000

Camp over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Camp: meaning, origin, and history

Crooked + mouth, through Campbell

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Camp means

Camp belongs to the name family reached through Camp → Campbell. Its meaning is “crooked + mouth”.

Origin, language, and formation

Camp is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Campbell.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 183 boys were recorded with the name Camp between 2005 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 24 in 2025; its best national rank was #4,269 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,819 in 2020 to #4,269 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,369 in 2015 to #4,269 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.

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How common is Camp?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 138,000; 24 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 71,200; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #4,269; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 95,747 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Camp 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Camp. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Camps were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Camp was born before 2020 — so the typical Camp is around 5 today.

Median birth year: 2020; About 5 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 50.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 183; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 50.3% of all recorded uses (92).

Is Camp 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: +1,200; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +6,550; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +8,100; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 4.80×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 100.0%; Peak was 2025 (24)
Years since peak: Peaking now; At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 40.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,269; 2025

Spellings of Camp

Camp is not the most common spelling — Carl is, with 63.4% against Camp's 0.02%.

Carl63.4%504,827
Sam16.0%127,234
Cade4.4%34,772
Cash3.5%27,705
Cary3.1%24,504
Case1.2%9,926
Cale1.0%8,207
Cal0.99%7,858

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.

Camp by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #4,269
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 6,550
Best rank ever: #4,269; 2025
Peak year: 2025; 24 that year
First recorded: 2005
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 183
Count in 2025: 24

Names similar to Camp

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

Camar Camila Cameo Kamp Camry Camelo Camil Camdan Camen Camdin Camran Camdon Camon Cam Camara Camauri Camari Cameryn Camillo Cameran Champ Cambren Camiri Campton

Sibling names for Camp

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

For a sister

Leonor Karleigh Keren Kendyl Anabel Adelle Eloisa Leigha

For a brother

Evans Hamilton Tobin Jerimiah Jorden Leander Henri Gavyn

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