Kameron
Masculine · “From Gaelic cam sròn”
Kameron is given to both — 39,012 boys and 4,431 girls since 1880. See Kameron as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Kameron is the K-spelling of Cameron, a surname carried down from the Scottish Highlands and turned into a first name by English speakers on this side of the Atlantic. It is a three-beat name that most people collapse to two in ordinary speech, and it comes with a short form, Kam, already waiting.
How old is the name Kameron?
Kameron first appears in US birth records in 1956 — 69 years ago. The typical Kameron alive today was born around 2008, making them about 17 years old. About 38,500 people named Kameron are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kameron most popular?
Kameron peaked in 2015, reaching #245 nationally. Today it ranks #466, 221 places below that high. See the whole 2015 chart.
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Where it comes from
From cam sròn to Kameron
The story of Kameron
Clan Cameron is one of the old Highland families, and Cameron traveled the way many Scottish surnames did — into emigrant families across North America and Australasia, then out of the family line and onto the front of the name. That surname-to-first-name move happened broadly in the twentieth century, and Cameron went with it. Kameron is the American respelling of that first name, part of a wider habit of swapping C for K in names that begin with a hard k sound. The root and the sound are Scottish; the K on the front is not.
Meaningscholars disagree
From Gaelic cam sròn, "crooked nose"
Two roads lead to Cameron. The Highland clan name is generally read as Gaelic cam sròn, "crooked nose" — a nickname that hardened into a family name. A separate Lowland surname comes from places called Cameron in Fife and elsewhere, whose name is usually read as "crooked hill". Both are respectable; neither has driven the other out.
How the name formed
- cam sròn
- CameronScottish surname
- Camerongiven name
- Kameron
Related forms: Cameron · Kamron · Camron · Kamryn · Camryn · Camshron
Pronouncing Kameron
KAM-er-un
Stress on the first syllable. In everyday speech the middle syllable usually disappears and it comes out as KAM-run, exactly as Cameron does.
Nicknames for Kameron
High
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
- 1956
- Most boys named
- 20161,454 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #245reached in 2015
- Change vs 2024
- −10.2%663 in 2025, from 738
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
- Kamron in English — spelling variant
- Camron in English — spelling variant
- Kamryn in English — related form
- Camryn in English — related form
- Camshron in Scottish Gaelic — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Florida, Georgia.
Kamerons among us
people named Kameron are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 2,576 born in 2025 was named Kameron
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kameron
- #466
- Kameron on the 2025 chart
- #67
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kameron went to 663 boys in 2025, but Cameron is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 5,011, which makes it the 67th most-given boys’ name of the year — 399 places above the chart.
- Cameron4,348
- Kameron663
About 1 boy in 341 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 2,576 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 Kody 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: Kody climbed just as high around 1993, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Kody'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 is easing off slowly — about 16% 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.
Kameron beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kameron in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The sound needs no explaining anywhere in the English-speaking world — only the spelling does.
- Comes with a ready-made short form, Kam, that works from preschool through adulthood.
- Sits on a documented Scottish surname with centuries behind it, rather than on a coined sound.
- Works on a name badge, a jersey and a résumé without adjustment.
- Familiar without being crowded — a class is unlikely to hold a second one.
- The C spelling is the default in most people's heads. Kameron will spend a lifetime saying "with a K" — on forms, at coffee counters, in email addresses that autocorrect back to Cameron.
- Cameron and its relatives Camryn and Kamryn are also given to girls, so the name is not read as unambiguously male on paper by everyone who meets it.
- The K respelling is a modern American habit, so the name reads as contemporary rather than inherited, even though the Scottish surname underneath it is old.
- It is more heavily used in the South than in the rest of the country, which may make it feel more or less familiar depending on where the child grows up.
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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 38,500 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 — 4,348 births in 2025 against 663 for Kameron.
- How popular is the name Kameron in 2025?
- Kameron ranks #466 among US boy names in 2025, with 663 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kameron?
- About 1 in every 2,576 US boys born in 2025 was named Kameron — 663 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kameron with classmates?
- Kameron will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Kameron
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