Camarion
Masculine
Camarion sits in a set that American naming built around one ending: Amarion, Damarion, Jamarion, Camarion, Kamarion. They arrive together in the late 1990s, peak together in the 2000s, and none of them is older than the birth records that hold them.
How old is the name Camarion?
Camarion first appears in US birth records in 2002 — 23 years ago. The typical Camarion alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 700 people named Camarion are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Camarion most popular?
Camarion peaked in 2008, reaching #2374 nationally. Today it ranks #5399, 3,025 places below that high. See the whole 2008 chart.
Lists built from the same records:
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Camarion
The interesting question about a set like this is which member came first, and the data gives an answer. Amarion and Damarion both appear in the American records in the mid-1990s, with Amarion slightly ahead; the rest follow within five years. That is the signature of an ending spreading rather than a name being copied — if families were imitating one child's name you would expect one spelling to dominate, and instead you get six openings sharing one tail almost simultaneously. Camarion is one of the later arrivals and one of the smaller. Its peak in 2008 comes at the end of the set's run, and by 2015 none of them is in the American top thousand. The whole family lived about twenty years, which is roughly the lifespan of a rhyme set with no older word underneath it.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source establishes an etymology. The -arion ending appears in American records in the 1990s and has no traceable source; it is sometimes explained as an extension of Marion, from the French Marion, a diminutive of Marie, but the -arion names do not behave like extensions of Marion and no source connects them. The Ca- opening is one of the productive American prefixes. Nothing in the name descends from an older language.
Pronouncing Camarion
kuh-MAIR-ee-un
Four syllables, stress on the second. Some families say kuh-MAR-ee-on with a fuller final vowel, and both are in use.
Nicknames for Camarion
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 2002
- Most boys named
- 200854 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2374reached in 2008
- Change vs 2024
- +41.7%17 in 2025, from 12
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Camarions among us
people named Camarion are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 100,475 born in 2025 was named Camarion
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Camarion
- #5399
- Camarion on the 2025 chart
- #777
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Camarion went to 17 boys in 2025, but Kamarion, Khamarion and Kamarrion are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 151, which makes it the 777th most-given boys’ name of the year — 4,622 places above the chart.
- Kamarion120
- Camarion17
- Khamarion9
- Kamarrion5
About 1 boy in 11,312 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 100,475 for Camarion itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Khang test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Camarion's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Khang climbed just as high around 1990, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Khang's path sketches the road Camarion is walking now.
Camarion sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Camarion beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Camarion in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Cam is a ready-made short form that everyone already knows.
- The vowels are open and there is no difficult consonant.
- It reads immediately as a name of its family.
- There is no meaning behind it to give a child.
- Camarion, Kamarion and Camarian are all in the records.
- Four syllables is long for American paperwork.
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Frequently asked
- How many Camarions are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Camarion are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Camarion?
- Camarion is one of 4 recorded spellings. Kamarion is the more common one — 120 births in 2025 against 17 for Camarion.
- How popular is the name Camarion in 2025?
- Camarion ranks #5399 among US boy names in 2025, with 17 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Camarion?
- About 1 in every 100,475 US boys born in 2025 was named Camarion — 17 in all.
- Will my child share the name Camarion with classmates?
- Camarion will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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