Cameo — unisex name

What the Data Says About Cameo

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,501 babies named Cameo between 1957 and 2020, spanning 64 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Cameo currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 1992, when 68 babies received it in a single year. Cameo is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 218 additional births since 1979.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cameo performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 502 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Cameo shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 160 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Cameo in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cameo 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 1,501 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.