Cam — #1422 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Cam

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,661 babies named Cam between 1892 and 2024, spanning 133 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Cam currently holds the #1422 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 129 babies received it in a single year. Cam is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 393 additional births since 1946.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cam performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 885 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Cam shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 101 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Cam in 25 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cam in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,661 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.