Cam
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · #1,393 for boys in 2025, 131 births
Given to boys 87.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1896 · 7 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,794since 1892
Cam over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 | #1,393 | 131 |
| 2024 | #9,556 | 10 | #1,423 | 129 |
| 2023 | — | #1,420 | 128 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,479 | 122 | |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | #1,489 | 120 |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 | #1,707 | 91 |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #1,658 | 97 |
| 2018 | — | #1,937 | 76 | |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #1,567 | 104 |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #1,585 | 103 |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #1,646 | 96 |
| 2014 | — | #1,627 | 95 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,763 | 82 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,575 | 100 | |
| 2011 | #12,153 | 8 | #1,755 | 83 |
| 2010 | — | #2,467 | 50 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,663 | 46 | |
| 2008 | — | #3,921 | 26 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,868 | 41 | |
| 2006 | — | #4,223 | 22 | |
| 2005 | — | #3,815 | 24 | |
| 2004 | — | #4,421 | 19 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,186 | 29 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,554 | 24 | |
| 2001 | — | #4,676 | 16 | |
| 2000 | — | #4,066 | 19 | |
| 1999 | — | #6,042 | 10 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,708 | 19 | |
| 1997 | — | #3,160 | 23 | |
| 1996 | — | #4,022 | 16 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,432 | 19 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,596 | 18 | |
| 1993 | — | #5,771 | 9 | |
| 1992 | — | #5,236 | 10 | |
| 1991 | — | #3,462 | 17 | |
| 1990 | — | #4,167 | 13 | |
| 1989 | — | #4,271 | 12 | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #5,200 | 8 |
| 1987 | — | #4,573 | 9 | |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 | #5,332 | 7 |
| 1985 | — | #4,052 | 10 | |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | — | #3,630 | 11 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,282 | 13 | |
| 1981 | #6,323 | 10 | #4,961 | 7 |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | #2,831 | 16 |
| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 | #4,068 | 9 |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | #2,473 | 18 |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | #3,386 | 11 |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | #2,601 | 16 |
| 1975 | #5,984 | 9 | #2,361 | 18 |
| 1974 | #5,776 | 9 | #3,318 | 10 |
| 1973 | #5,580 | 9 | #3,694 | 8 |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | #3,152 | 10 |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | #2,973 | 11 |
| 1970 | #5,818 | 8 | #1,794 | 24 |
| 1969 | #3,774 | 14 | #1,914 | 19 |
| 1968 | #4,779 | 9 | #2,200 | 14 |
| 1967 | #4,300 | 10 | #1,652 | 22 |
| 1966 | #4,198 | 10 | #2,043 | 15 |
| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 | #1,720 | 21 |
| 1964 | #3,515 | 14 | #1,975 | 17 |
| 1963 | #3,336 | 15 | #1,839 | 19 |
| 1962 | #3,782 | 12 | #1,962 | 17 |
| 1961 | #2,752 | 20 | #1,521 | 28 |
| 1960 | #3,688 | 12 | #1,619 | 25 |
| 1959 | #3,104 | 15 | #2,033 | 16 |
| 1958 | #3,232 | 14 | #1,766 | 20 |
| 1957 | #2,926 | 16 | #1,952 | 17 |
| 1956 | #3,696 | 11 | #2,263 | 13 |
| 1955 | #3,778 | 10 | #1,902 | 17 |
| 1954 | #3,157 | 13 | #1,559 | 24 |
| 1953 | #2,921 | 14 | #3,143 | 7 |
| 1952 | #4,908 | 6 | #2,875 | 8 |
| 1951 | — | #3,066 | 7 | |
| 1950 | #4,315 | 7 | #2,580 | 9 |
| 1949 | — | #2,453 | 10 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,326 | 11 | |
| 1947 | #5,295 | 5 | #3,733 | 5 |
| 1946 | #4,417 | 6 | #2,271 | 11 |
| 1945 | — | #2,242 | 10 | |
| 1944 | — | #3,109 | 6 | |
| 1943 | — | — | ||
| 1942 | — | — | ||
| 1941 | — | — | ||
| 1940 | — | #3,459 | 5 | |
| 1939 | — | #2,829 | 7 | |
| 1938 | — | — | ||
| 1937 | — | #3,518 | 5 | |
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | — | #3,645 | 5 | |
| 1934 | — | #3,277 | 6 | |
| 1933 | — | — | ||
| 1932 | — | #3,776 | 5 | |
| 1931 | — | #3,763 | 5 | |
| 1930 | — | #4,001 | 5 | |
| 1929 | — | — | ||
| 1928 | — | — | ||
| 1927 | — | #3,151 | 8 | |
| 1926 | — | #2,904 | 9 | |
| 1925 | — | — | ||
| 1924 | — | #4,347 | 5 | |
| 1923 | — | — | ||
| 1922 | — | #4,307 | 5 | |
| 1921 | — | #2,804 | 10 | |
| 1920 | — | #3,489 | 7 | |
| 1919 | — | #4,168 | 5 | |
| 1918 | — | #2,543 | 11 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,423 | 11 | |
| 1916 | — | #3,516 | 6 | |
| 1915 | — | #3,392 | 6 | |
| 1914 | — | — | ||
| 1913 | — | #2,496 | 6 | |
| 1912 | — | — | ||
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| 1897 | — | — | ||
| 1896 | — | #900 | 7 | |
| 1895 | — | — | ||
| 1894 | — | — | ||
| 1893 | — | — | ||
| 1892 | — | #1,066 | 5 | |
| 1891 | — | — | ||
| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | — | ||
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Cam! It came in at #1,066, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1892–1895, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Cam is popular in 1896
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Cam
- 30 spots since 2024 (#1,423 → #1,393)
- 314 spots since 2020 (#1,707 → #1,393)
- 253 spots since 2015 (#1,646 → #1,393)
- Debuted 1892
- Peaked 1896 at #900 (7 births)
- Births halved by 1897, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1896
- Highest: 1 in 13,039 boys born in 2025 were named Cam (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #900 in 1896, was only 1 in 17,081 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 31.7% of all boys named Cam (886) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1986, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 12 | #900 (1896) | #983 |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 45 | #2,423 (1917) | #3,090 |
| 1920s | 44 | #2,804 (1921) | #3,500 |
| 1930s | 38 | #2,829 (1939) | #3,544 |
| 1940s | 58 | #2,242 (1945) | #2,799 |
| 1950s | 138 | #1,559 (1954) | #2,314 |
| 1960s | 197 | #1,521 (1961) | #1,845 |
| 1970s | 135 | #1,794 (1970) | #2,982 |
| 1980s | 100 | #2,831 (1980) | #4,311 |
| 1990s | 154 | #3,160 (1997) | #4,260 |
| 2000s | 266 | #2,663 (2009) | #3,739 |
| 2010s | 886 | #1,567 (2017) | #1,758 |
| 2020s | 721 | #1,393 (2025) | #1,485 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Cam in 1896
Top boys' names in 1896
More about 1896
boys
119,565 boys got a published name in 1896; 1 in 17,081 of them was named Cam, which outranked 28.9% of the 1,266 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 35.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).