Meaning not yet researched.
Kam: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 33 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,317 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,317 in 2016; #3,477 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kam in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,477 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #2,317.
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Kam: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 33 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,317 in 2016 · most boys in one year: 57 (2016).
In 2025, 33 US boys were named Kam, making it the 3,477th most common boys’ name of the year, down 458 places from #3,019 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 41 boys named Kam in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,317, reached in 2016. That year also had the most boys given the name: 57. For comparison, it was #2,506 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Kam in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #1,556, reached in 1974. That year also had the most girls given the name: 62. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kam in 65 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 5 babies. In all, 1,353 US babies have been given the name, 28% of them girls and 72% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 393 babies named Kam.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 480 US boys were named Kam; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 57. In 2025 that was about 1 in 51,760 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Cam (3,195 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kayme 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: Kayme (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 Kam in the open dataset we use.
Kam is listed as a nickname for Kameron.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 33 | #3,477 |
| 2024 | — | — | 41 | #3,019 |
| 2023 | — | — | 47 | #2,756 |
| 2022 | — | — | 49 | #2,694 |
| 2021 | — | — | 51 | #2,570 |
| 2020 | — | — | 40 | #2,956 |
| 2019 | — | — | 56 | #2,407 |
| 2018 | — | — | 51 | #2,529 |
| 2017 | — | — | 55 | #2,366 |
| 2016 | — | — | 57 | #2,317 |
| 2015 | — | — | 50 | #2,506 |
| 2014 | — | — | 40 | #2,909 |
| 2013 | — | — | 27 | #3,811 |
| 2012 | — | — | 26 | #3,950 |
| 2011 | — | — | 20 | #4,749 |
| 2010 | — | — | 11 | #7,328 |
| 2009 | — | — | 7 | #10,430 |
| 2008 | — | — | 7 | #10,469 |
| 2007 | — | — | 7 | #10,335 |
| 2006 | — | — | 10 | #7,723 |
| 2005 | — | — | 5 | #12,373 |
| 2003 | — | — | 8 | #8,232 |
| 1998 | — | — | 6 | #9,058 |
| 1997 | — | — | 9 | #6,365 |
| 1995 | — | — | 5 | #9,587 |
| 1994 | — | — | 9 | #6,096 |
| 1993 | — | — | 5 | #9,460 |
| 1990 | — | — | 8 | #6,132 |
| 1989 | — | — | 5 | #8,559 |
| 1988 | — | — | 8 | #5,462 |
| 1986 | — | — | 6 | #6,325 |
| 1985 | — | — | 5 | #7,072 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #5,975 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,245 | — | — |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,137 | — | — |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,548 | 7 | #5,228 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,972 | 16 | #2,842 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,537 | 16 | #2,734 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,130 | 7 | #4,860 |
| 1976 | 28 | #2,755 | 7 | #4,674 |
| 1975 | 35 | #2,333 | 17 | #2,498 |
| 1974 | 62 | #1,556 | 13 | #2,875 |
| 1973 | 23 | #2,949 | 10 | #3,327 |
| 1972 | 22 | #3,000 | 5 | #5,362 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,875 | — | — |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,211 | 9 | #3,402 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,676 | 14 | #2,362 |
| 1968 | 27 | #2,386 | 5 | #4,429 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,772 | — | — |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,050 | 8 | #3,119 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,058 | 7 | #3,404 |
| 1964 | 12 | #3,972 | 6 | #3,828 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,895 | 5 | #4,343 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,011 | 7 | #3,469 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,555 | — | — |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,954 | 5 | #4,331 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,733 | 8 | #3,158 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,802 | 6 | #3,770 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,555 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,082 | — | — |
| 1952 | — | — | 5 | #4,004 |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,678 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,328 | — | — |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,646 |
| 1914 | — | — | 5 | #3,512 |
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).