Cam

boys’ nameAt its peak · modern nameCompare

Cam is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 129 births. Its best rank was 907th, in 1896.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 1290.01% of boys
Peak year: 2024129 births
Best rank: #907in 1896
Since 1892: 3,054people given the name

Babies named Cam, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

2,661 boys have been named Cam in the United States since 1892, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2024, with 129 births.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2024, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2012, and the 2010s alone account for 33%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 393 girls have also been given it, 13% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Cam
1890s	12
1910s	45
1920s	44
1930s	38
1940s	58
1950s	138
1960s	197
1970s	135
1980s	100
1990s	154
2000s	266
2010s	885
2020s	589

In 2024, its biggest year

Cam was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2024 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Theodore and James. See all of 2024.

Names that rose and fell with Cam

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

Kam1,320 ever

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.