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How popular is “Cameron” in the USA?

Number of people named “Cameron” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Cameron” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Cameron” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Cameron” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Cameron” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Cameron” by birth year

This chart shows how “Cameron” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1882 6 0.000027084 6 -100%
1883 6 0.000027657 6 -100%
1884 7 0.000028752 7 -100%
1885 5 0.000020759 5 -100%
1888 6 0.000020035 6 -100%
1890 5 0.000016589 5 -100%
1892 5 0.000014953 5 -100%
1893 5 0.000015374 5 -100%
1894 5 0.000014763 5 -100%
1895 7 0.000019942 7 -100%
1896 7 0.000019581 7 -100%
1900 9 0.000019989 9 -100%
1902 6 0.000015515 6 -100%
1905 5 0.000011795 5 -100%
1906 7 0.000016338 7 -100%
1907 8 0.00001719 8 -100%
1908 8 0.000016372 8 -100%
1909 6 0.000011737 6 -100%
1910 8 0.000013543 8 -100%
1911 15 0.000023282 15 -100%
1912 24 0.00002429 24 -100%
1913 10 0.000008794 10 -100%
1914 32 0.000022593 5 27 -69%
1915 35 0.0000191 35 -100%
1916 46 0.00002378 46 -100%
1917 42 0.000020929 42 -100%
1918 41 0.000018884 41 -100%
1919 28 0.000013269 28 -100%
1920 82 0.000036241 5 77 -88%
1921 61 0.00002613 61 -100%
1922 55 0.000024026 55 -100%
1923 54 0.000023453 54 -100%
1924 58 0.000024353 5 53 -83%
1925 37 0.000015857 37 -100%
1926 69 0.000030054 69 -100%
1927 43 0.00001854 43 -100%
1928 39 0.000017249 39 -100%
1929 42 0.000019159 42 -100%
1930 47 0.00002114 47 -100%
1931 44 0.000020909 44 -100%
1932 42 0.000019893 42 -100%
1933 32 0.000016004 32 -100%
1934 42 0.000020223 42 -100%
1935 35 0.000016747 35 -100%
1936 44 0.000021179 5 39 -77%
1937 39 0.000018304 39 -100%
1938 24 0.000010847 24 -100%
1939 44 0.000019969 44 -100%
1940 33 0.000014331 33 -100%
1941 52 0.000021343 8 44 -69%
1942 65 0.000023794 14 51 -57%
1943 67 0.000023737 9 58 -73%
1944 61 0.000022676 12 49 -61%
1945 75 0.000028271 12 63 -68%
1946 79 0.000024724 18 61 -54%
1947 98 0.000027205 19 79 -61%
1948 92 0.000026647 18 74 -61%
1949 106 0.000030418 11 95 -79%
1950 110 0.000031398 22 88 -60%
1951 124 0.000033661 23 101 -63%
1952 135 0.000035545 23 112 -66%
1953 156 0.000040481 19 137 -76%
1954 195 0.000048986 22 173 -77%
1955 213 0.00005305 34 179 -68%
1956 255 0.000061848 26 229 -80%
1957 312 0.000074248 34 278 -78%
1958 284 0.0000687 22 262 -85%
1959 282 0.000067821 31 251 -78%
1960 314 0.000075593 30 284 -81%
1961 356 0.000085943 35 321 -80%
1962 531 0.000131586 37 494 -86%
1963 415 0.000104846 43 372 -79%
1964 336 0.000086429 36 300 -79%
1965 353 0.000097367 29 324 -84%
1966 346 0.00009955 28 318 -84%
1967 393 0.000115762 58 335 -70%
1968 493 0.000145927 73 420 -70%
1969 566 0.000162863 83 483 -71%
1970 577 0.000159988 72 505 -75%
1971 564 0.000164319 63 501 -78%
1972 631 0.000200764 75 556 -76%
1973 595 0.000197223 82 513 -72%
1974 743 0.000244408 91 652 -76%
1975 1118 0.000370273 90 1028 -84%
1976 1167 0.000384603 97 1070 -83%
1977 1114 0.000350701 103 1011 -82%
1978 1207 0.000380293 132 1075 -78%
1979 1262 0.000379321 136 1126 -78%
1980 1294 0.000375671 150 1144 -77%
1981 1500 0.000433604 173 1327 -77%
1982 1666 0.00047492 200 1466 -76%
1983 1605 0.000463426 158 1447 -80%
1984 1862 0.000533715 219 1643 -76%
1985 1992 0.000558122 200 1792 -80%
1986 2242 0.000630293 193 2049 -83%
1987 3417 0.000947689 258 3159 -85%
1988 5286 0.001430565 301 4985 -89%
1989 5863 0.001525057 271 5592 -91%
1990 6982 0.001766487 318 6664 -91%
1991 7000 0.001797054 302 6698 -91%
1992 7665 0.001995432 309 7356 -92%
1993 7421 0.001968289 330 7091 -91%
1994 7186 0.00193294 348 6838 -90%
1995 7435 0.002030225 405 7030 -89%
1996 7845 0.002150968 457 7388 -88%
1997 9069 0.002501276 851 8218 -81%
1998 12981 0.003529165 1565 11416 -76%
1999 14216 0.003848541 1781 12435 -75%
2000 14361 0.003799303 1596 12765 -78%
2001 12900 0.003446074 1319 11581 -80%
2002 11575 0.003096335 1236 10339 -79%
2003 11007 0.002894812 1042 9965 -81%
2004 10165 0.002660352 1278 8887 -75%
2005 9816 0.002553029 1242 8574 -75%
2006 9990 0.002525158 1134 8856 -77%
2007 10087 0.002523212 1101 8986 -78%
2008 9356 0.002380259 1052 8304 -78%
2009 8544 0.002236547 907 7637 -79%
2010 7955 0.002152479 756 7199 -81%
2011 8233 0.002250811 706 7527 -83%
2012 7909 0.002162485 535 7374 -86%
2013 7381 0.002024595 511 6870 -86%
2014 7594 0.002048902 525 7069 -86%
2015 7345 0.001984646 586 6759 -84%
2016 7446 0.002029603 588 6858 -84%
2017 6552 0.001832115 577 5975 -82%
2018 5929 0.001686341 617 5312 -79%
2019 5818 0.001676206 565 5253 -81%
2020 5677 0.001699407 622 5055 -78%
2021 5791 0.001709294 667 5124 -77%
2022 5564 0.001644628 605 4959 -78%
2023 5724 0.001728681 639 5085 -78%
2024 5445 0.001635871 628 4817 -77%

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