Camara
Camara was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,457 among girls’ names; 881 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Camara by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Camara?
#8,457 among girls’ names, 2025
Camara fell from #8,083 in 2015 to #8,457 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.8 to 7.5 per million.
36 babies in 1994, the peak
Camara peaked in 1994, when 36 babies were given it (31 girls, #3,541 among girls’ names). The 12 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,457 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,429 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,096 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,120 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,684 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,053 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,086 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,957 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,899 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,239 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,083 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,084 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,458 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,152 | 11.9 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,704 | 17.1 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,266 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,504 | 18.0 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,310 | 14.3 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,393 | 17.7 |
| 2006 | 28 | #4,979 | 14.7 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,310 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,011 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,271 | 8.2 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,181 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,378 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,251 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,741 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,399 | 10.8 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,449 | 10.3 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,100 | 8.6 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,788 | 15.9 |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,541 | 17.4 |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,888 | 14.9 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,163 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,693 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,167 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,021 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,320 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,008 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,845 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,103 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,246 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,155 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 9 | #6,954 | 5.3 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,582 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,395 | 5.0 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,569 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,463 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,566 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,805 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,574 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,424 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,479 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,114 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,662 | 5.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Camara a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 881 Americans recorded as Camara, 91% are girls and 9% boys. In 2025 it went to 12 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Camara: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Camara, and how old are they?
An estimated 861 Americans named Camara and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 16 and 34. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 829 people named Camara (696 women and girls, 133 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 803 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 14,255 babies since 1880, Camara is the sixth most given (6.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 396 babies (3.0%), the seventh most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Camara
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Camara and names like it
- Compare Camara and KamoraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCamara peaked in 1994.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Camara since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Camara.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Camara alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.