Cambria
Cambria was given to 96 girls in 2025, #1,993 among girls’ names; 6,206 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,130 Americans named Cambria and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 10 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cambria by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cambria mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Cambria is “a female given name.”
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin Cambria, from Middle Welsh Kymry, from Proto-Brythonic *kömrüɣ, plural of *kömroɣ. Doublet of Cumberland, Cumbria, and Cymru. Cognate with Welsh Cymru.
/ˈkæm.bɹi.ə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Cambria?
#1,993 among girls’ names, 2025
Cambria fell from #1,021 in 2015 to #1,993 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.15 to 0.06 per 1,000.
275 babies in 2012, the peak
Cambria peaked in 2012, when 275 girls were given it, #933 among girls’ names. The 96 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 96 | #1,993 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 121 | #1,685 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 131 | #1,596 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 162 | #1,407 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 186 | #1,259 | 0.11 |
| 2020 | 179 | #1,262 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 183 | #1,268 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 207 | #1,162 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 232 | #1,093 | 0.13 |
| 2016 | 230 | #1,109 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 262 | #1,021 | 0.15 |
| 2014 | 263 | #1,001 | 0.15 |
| 2013 | 247 | #1,009 | 0.14 |
| 2012 | 275 | #933 | 0.16 |
| 2011 | 273 | #945 | 0.16 |
| 2010 | 241 | #1,036 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 265 | #1,001 | 0.14 |
| 2008 | 254 | #1,031 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 202 | #1,231 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 154 | #1,452 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 127 | #1,599 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 139 | #1,458 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 119 | #1,616 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 114 | #1,625 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 121 | #1,533 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 85 | #1,967 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 110 | #1,538 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 95 | #1,675 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 89 | #1,731 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 69 | #2,015 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 69 | #1,980 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 65 | #2,099 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 82 | #1,774 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 60 | #2,218 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 55 | #2,317 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 47 | #2,524 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 44 | #2,572 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 50 | #2,248 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 65 | #1,793 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 39 | #2,515 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,093 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 44 | #2,229 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,598 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 33 | #2,777 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 40 | #2,412 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,807 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 30 | #2,870 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,703 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,622 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,697 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,789 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,249 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,602 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,071 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,327 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,154 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,596 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,328 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,911 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #5,951 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cambria a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cambria has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cambria: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cambria, and how old are they?
6,130 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,206 Americans ever recorded as Cambria. The median Cambria alive today is 16 years old; half are between 10 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 4,903 people named Cambria (4,894 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,319 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 201 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 803 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,640 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,480 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Cambria born?
The states with the most babies named Cambria are California, Texas and Washington, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Washington is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 32 | #891 | 1.8× |
| Texas | 8 | #2,440 | 0.5× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,076 | 0.7× |
Where Cambria is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cambria is most over-represented in Utah: since 1963 it was given 3.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Cambria with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,693 babies since 1880, Cambria is the most given (37% of them). In 2025 it was given to 96 of their 451 babies (21%), the second 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 Cambria
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 Cambria and names like it
- Compare Cambria and CambrieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCambria peaked in 2012.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cambria since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Cambria.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Cambria alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.