Meaning not yet researched.
Cam: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 131 in 2025. Its best rank was #907 in 1896.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #907 in 1896; #1,395 in 2025. About 94% of babies named Cam in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,395 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1896, at #907.
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Cam: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 131 boys in 2025. Peak: #907 in 1896 · most boys in one year: 131 (2025).
In 2025, 131 US boys were named Cam, making it the 1,395th most common boys’ name of the year, up 29 places from #1,424 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 129 boys named Cam in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #907, reached in 1896. The most boys given the name in a single year was 131, in 2025. For comparison, it was #1,647 in 2015 and #2,603 in 1950.
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Cam, making it the 11,127th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,444 places from #9,683 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 10 girls named Cam in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,761, reached in 1961. That year also had the most girls given the name: 20. For comparison, it was #16,952 in 2015 and #4,364 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cam in 104 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1892 with 5 babies. In all, 3,195 US babies have been given the name, 13% of them girls and 87% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 914 babies named Cam.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,101 US boys were named Cam; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 131. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,039 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cam ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #554 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Cameron (344,896 babies since 1880) and Kam (1,353 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Camm and Kamm are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Camm (5), Kamm (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Cam in the open dataset we use.
Cam is listed as a nickname for Cameron, Campbell.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 9 | #554 | — |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #632 | — |
| Missouri | 6 | #801 | — |
| Michigan | 8 | #840 | — |
| Arizona | 6 | #858 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,266 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,300 | #1,099 |
| New York | 7 | #1,437 | — |
| California | 11 | #1,522 | #2,319 |
| Florida | 6 | #1,666 | — |
| Texas | 8 | #1,938 | #1,555 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,127 | 131 | #1,395 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,683 | 129 | #1,424 |
| 2023 | — | — | 128 | #1,424 |
| 2022 | — | — | 122 | #1,479 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,707 | 120 | #1,491 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,392 | 91 | #1,707 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,992 | 97 | #1,662 |
| 2018 | — | — | 76 | #1,938 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,342 | 104 | #1,569 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,734 | 103 | #1,587 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,952 | 96 | #1,647 |
| 2014 | — | — | 95 | #1,629 |
| 2013 | — | — | 82 | #1,766 |
| 2012 | — | — | 100 | #1,576 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,375 | 83 | #1,757 |
| 2010 | — | — | 50 | #2,473 |
| 2009 | — | — | 46 | #2,668 |
| 2008 | — | — | 26 | #3,942 |
| 2007 | — | — | 41 | #2,874 |
| 2006 | — | — | 22 | #4,244 |
| 2005 | — | — | 24 | #3,831 |
| 2004 | — | — | 19 | #4,444 |
| 2003 | — | — | 29 | #3,206 |
| 2002 | — | — | 24 | #3,572 |
| 2001 | — | — | 16 | #4,704 |
| 2000 | — | — | 19 | #4,080 |
| 1999 | — | — | 10 | #6,102 |
| 1998 | — | — | 19 | #3,720 |
| 1997 | — | — | 23 | #3,170 |
| 1996 | — | — | 16 | #4,043 |
| 1995 | — | — | 19 | #3,445 |
| 1994 | — | — | 18 | #3,611 |
| 1993 | — | — | 9 | #5,824 |
| 1992 | — | — | 10 | #5,282 |
| 1991 | — | — | 17 | #3,482 |
| 1990 | — | — | 13 | #4,194 |
| 1989 | — | — | 12 | #4,304 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,070 | 8 | #5,259 |
| 1987 | — | — | 9 | #4,620 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,651 | 7 | #5,412 |
| 1985 | — | — | 10 | #4,085 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,628 | 7 | #5,043 |
| 1983 | — | — | 11 | #3,652 |
| 1982 | — | — | 13 | #3,312 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,390 | 7 | #5,017 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,270 | 16 | #2,844 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,147 | 9 | #4,118 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,685 | 18 | #2,488 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,645 | 11 | #3,414 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,464 | 16 | #2,619 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,025 | 18 | #2,375 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,810 | 10 | #3,348 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,629 | 8 | #3,746 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,425 | 10 | #3,184 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,470 | 11 | #2,997 |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,873 | 24 | #1,803 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,802 | 19 | #1,918 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,819 | 14 | #2,212 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,334 | 22 | #1,662 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,222 | 15 | #2,054 |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,882 | 21 | #1,727 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,533 | 17 | #1,979 |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,352 | 19 | #1,848 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,800 | 17 | #1,976 |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,761 | 28 | #1,523 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,717 | 25 | #1,626 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,119 | 16 | #2,046 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,244 | 20 | #1,773 |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,937 | 17 | #1,962 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,720 | 13 | #2,281 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,807 | 17 | #1,910 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,178 | 24 | #1,562 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,941 | 7 | #3,175 |
| 1952 | 6 | #4,974 | 8 | #2,906 |
| 1951 | — | — | 7 | #3,103 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,364 | 9 | #2,603 |
| 1949 | — | — | 10 | #2,474 |
| 1948 | — | — | 11 | #2,340 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,394 | 5 | #3,788 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,490 | 11 | #2,289 |
| 1945 | — | — | 10 | #2,270 |
| 1944 | — | — | 6 | #3,152 |
| 1940 | — | — | 5 | #3,518 |
| 1939 | — | — | 7 | #2,864 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,598 |
| 1935 | — | — | 5 | #3,724 |
| 1934 | — | — | 6 | #3,333 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #3,852 |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #3,838 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,074 |
| 1927 | — | — | 8 | #3,198 |
| 1926 | — | — | 9 | #2,942 |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,441 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,393 |
| 1921 | — | — | 10 | #2,834 |
| 1920 | — | — | 7 | #3,529 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,242 |
| 1918 | — | — | 11 | #2,568 |
| 1917 | — | — | 11 | #2,444 |
| 1916 | — | — | 6 | #3,562 |
| 1915 | — | — | 6 | #3,459 |
| 1913 | — | — | 6 | #2,542 |
| 1896 | — | — | 7 | #907 |
| 1892 | — | — | 5 | #1,087 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).