Cameron

What Cameron means

Means “crooked, bent + nose”

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

Source: Wiktionary, “Cameron” (revision 93602155), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Cameron?

US: Falling: down from #56 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #132 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2000, when 12,767 boys got the name (#31 that year). First in the US records in 1882.

How common

• About 1 in 393 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,177 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 214 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in CT (7.95 per 1,000 boys), DE (7.47 per 1,000 boys), RI (6.4 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Cameron is #76 in the US and #216 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 87.6% of US babies named Cameron were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Kameron663 US · 5 E&W
• Kameryn12 US
• Cameryn8 US
• Cameran6 US
• Kamyron5 US
• Cameren5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Cameron

Boys

• Tanner#475From a surname for “a tanner”^*
• Skyler#783Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #360 in 2015, #783 in 2025
• Chandler#753Editor’s note Used for both: 54% of US babies named Chandler in 2025 were boys
• Brock#810Variant of Brook, meaning “swamp, marsh”^*
• Donovan#495“descendant of (a person named) brown & black”^*
• Colby#615“charcoal + settlement”^*

For a sister

• Sydney#348Variant of Sidney, meaning “wide + island”^*
• Cassidy#541“descendant of Caiside”^*
• Clare#924“bright, shining, clear”^*
• Leslie#712“garden of hollies”^*
• Mackenzie#228“son, descendant + of Coinneach”^*
• Bailey#208“outer castle wall”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Cameron’s. Rank is US 2025.