Camron
Masculine · “crooked nose”
Camron is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 14,813 boys against 399 girls since 1880.
Camron is Cameron shortened on the page, and the Scottish surname behind it is blunt: crooked nose, from the Gaelic cam sròn — a clan named for a chief's face.
How old is the name Camron?
Camron first appears in US birth records in 1958 — 67 years ago. The typical Camron alive today was born around 2004, making them about 21 years old. About 14,500 people named Camron are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Camron most popular?
Camron peaked in 2003, reaching #316 nationally. Today it ranks #2056, 1,740 places below that high. See the whole 2003 chart.
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Where it comes from
From cam sròn to Camron
The story of Camron
Clan Cameron was one of the great Highland clans, prominent in the Jacobite risings. The surname became a given name in the twentieth century and rose enormously in America from the 1970s, reaching the top forty. Respellings followed, and Camron — which cuts a letter rather than adding one — peaked in the early 2000s.
Meaning
crooked nose
From the Gaelic cam, 'crooked' or 'bent', and sròn, 'nose'. Clan Cameron of Lochaber took the name from an ancestor so described. A separate Cameron surname comes from a place name meaning 'crooked hill'. Both elements are ordinary Gaelic and the reading is undisputed.
How the name formed
- cam sròn
- Cameron
- Camron
Related forms: Cameron · Kameron · Camshròn
Pronouncing Camron
KAM-run
Two syllables, stress on the first. Camron records how Cameron is usually said, which has three on paper and two in speech.
Nicknames for Camron
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
- 1958
- Most boys named
- 2003943 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #316reached in 2003
- Change vs 2024
- −24.2%72 in 2025, from 95
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.
Camron in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Cameron in English — spelling variant
- Kameron in English — spelling variant
- Camshròn in Gaelic — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Florida, Illinois.
Camrons among us
people named Camron are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 23,723 born in 2025 was named Camron
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Camron
- #2056
- Camron on the 2025 chart
- #785
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Camron went to 72 boys in 2025, but Kamron is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 143, which makes it the 785th most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,271 places above the chart.
- Camron72
- Kamron71
About 1 boy in 11,945 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 23,723 for Camron 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 Jeffry test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Camron's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jeffry climbed just as high around 1956, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jeffry's path sketches the road Camron is walking now.
Camron 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
Where Camron is headed
Camron is easing off slowly — about 15% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Camron beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Camron in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The crooked-nose meaning is concrete, undisputed and genuinely memorable.
- A documented Highland clan stands behind it.
- Cam is a short, clean, immediately available form.
- Cameron is overwhelmingly the standard spelling.
- It is thoroughly unisex in America and does not signal sex on paper.
- It is closely dated to the 2000s in this spelling.
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Frequently asked
- How many Camrons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 14,500 people named Camron are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Camron?
- Camron is the most-used spelling in US records — 72 of the 143 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Kamron.
- How popular is the name Camron in 2025?
- Camron ranks #2056 among US boy names in 2025, with 72 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Camron?
- About 1 in every 23,723 US boys born in 2025 was named Camron — 72 in all.
- Will my child share the name Camron with classmates?
- Camron will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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