Kameron
Feminine · “crooked nose”
Kameron is given to both — 4,431 girls and 39,012 boys since 1880. See Kameron as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Kameron is a respelling of Cameron, and the Highland clan's name is a nickname nobody would choose — cam sròn, a crooked nose.
How old is the name Kameron?
Kameron first appears in US birth records in 1965 — 60 years ago. The typical Kameron alive today was born around 2002, making them about 23 years old. About 4,400 people named Kameron are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kameron most popular?
Kameron peaked in 1999, reaching #948 nationally. Today it ranks #4172, 3,224 places below that high. See the whole 1999 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Kameron
Ours, offered as ours. Gaelic bynames were blunt in a way modern naming is not: Cameron is a crooked nose, Campbell is a crooked mouth, Kennedy is an ugly head, and all three became clan names that thousands now wear with pride. That transformation — an insult hardening into a family and then into a source of identity — has happened repeatedly, and it is one of the more cheering patterns in naming. Kameron is four spellings and eight centuries from the nose.
Meaning
crooked nose
From Gaelic cam, crooked, and sròn, a nose; the clan name is a personal byname that became hereditary. Gaelic nicknaming was direct and a great many Highland surnames record a physical feature.
Pronouncing Kameron
KAM-run
Two or three syllables, first stressed. Kameron and Cameron are said identically.
Nicknames for Kameron
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
- 1965
- Most girls named
- 2000221 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #948reached in 1999
- Change vs 2024
- −5.6%34 in 2025, from 36
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.
Kameron in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Cameron in English — spelling variant
- Camshròn in Scottish Gaelic — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Michigan.
Kamerons among us
people named Kameron are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 47,273 born in 2025 was named Kameron
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kameron
- #4172
- Kameron on the 2025 chart
- #436
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kameron went to 34 girls in 2025, but Cameron is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 648, which makes it the 436th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,736 places above the chart.
- Cameron614
- Kameron34
About 1 girl in 2,480 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 47,273 for Kameron 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 Deborrah test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kameron's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Deborrah climbed just as high around 1953, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Deborrah's path sketches the road Kameron is walking now.
Kameron 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 Kameron is headed
Kameron should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
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.
Kameron beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kameron in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled Gaelic meaning that is blunt and memorable.
- Kam is a plain short form that works from childhood on.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- Cameron is the standard spelling and is more often read as a boys' name.
- Kameron, Cameron, Kamryn and Camryn are all in use.
- The meaning describes a crooked nose, which some will find unflattering.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kamerons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,400 people named Kameron are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kameron?
- Kameron is one of 2 recorded spellings. Cameron is the more common one — 614 births in 2025 against 34 for Kameron.
- How popular is the name Kameron in 2025?
- Kameron ranks #4172 among US girl names in 2025, with 34 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kameron?
- About 1 in every 47,273 US girls born in 2025 was named Kameron — 34 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kameron with classmates?
- Kameron will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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