Camber
Feminine · “Latin camurus”
Camber is given to both — 555 girls and 41 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
A camber is a curve built into something on purpose. Roads are cambered so water runs off, aircraft wings are cambered so they lift, car wheels are cambered so they grip in a turn. Three trades use the word and all of them mean a deliberate deviation from flat.
How old is the name Camber?
Camber first appears in US birth records in 1979 — 46 years ago. The typical Camber alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 500 people named Camber are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Camber most popular?
Camber peaked in 1986, reaching #4347 nationally. Today it ranks #9457, 5,110 places below that high. See the whole 1986 chart.
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Where it comes from
From camurus to Camber
The story of Camber
Cambering a road is old engineering. Roman roads were built with a pronounced convex surface so that rainwater ran to the ditches on either side rather than standing on the surface and destroying it, and the technique was rediscovered and formalized in the eighteenth century by Telford and McAdam. The same idea reappears wherever a curve does work. An aerofoil's camber, the asymmetry between its upper and lower surfaces, is what generates most of its lift at low speed. A wheel's camber angle, the few degrees by which it leans in or out from vertical, determines how much rubber meets the road when a car corners. A beam is cambered upward before loading so that it settles level. In every case the word names a curve introduced to solve a problem that a flat surface would create.
Meaning
Latin camurus, curved
Camber comes through Old French cambre from Latin camurus, curved or crooked. In English it names a slight convex curve, particularly the cross-slope of a road, the curvature of an aerofoil and the tilt of a wheel. Camber is also a place in East Sussex. The American peak of the given name is 1986.
How the name formed
- camurus
- cambre
- camber
Related forms: Cambre · Cambre
Pronouncing Camber
KAM-bur
Two syllables, stress on the first. It is said exactly like the engineering word, with no name-specific pronunciation.
Nicknames for Camber
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
- 1979
- Most girls named
- 201425 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #4347reached in 1986
- Change vs 2024
- +42.9%10 in 2025, from 7
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.
Camber in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Cambre in French — related form
- Cambre in English — spelling variant
Cambers among us
people named Camber are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 160,727 born in 2025 was named Camber
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Camber
- #9457
- Camber on the 2025 chart
- #940
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Camber went to 10 girls in 2025, but Kamber is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 20, which makes it the 940th most-given girls’ name of the year — 8,517 places above the chart.
- Camber10
- Kamber10
About 1 girl in 80,363 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 160,727 for Camber 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 Joeleen test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Camber's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Joeleen climbed just as high around 1940, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Joeleen's path sketches the road Camber is walking now.
Camber 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
Camber beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Camber in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Cam works as a short form and is used for both sexes.
- The pronunciation is obvious from the spelling.
- Two syllables with a firm first-syllable stress.
- It is a technical term in several trades.
- Camden, Cambria and Amber are all close in sound.
- It reads as a surname to many people.
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Frequently asked
- How many Cambers are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Camber are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Camber?
- Camber is the most-used spelling in US records — 10 of the 20 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Kamber.
- How popular is the name Camber in 2025?
- Camber ranks #9457 among US girl names in 2025, with 10 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Camber?
- About 1 in every 160,727 US girls born in 2025 was named Camber — 10 in all.
- Will my child share the name Camber with classmates?
- Camber will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Camber
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