Cameron
given name · Latin script
Meaning: (i) ‘person from Cameron’, a Scottish Lowlands place name probably meaning ‘bent hill’; (ii) from a Scottish Gaelic nickname meaning ‘bent nose’ (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male
- France (INSEE, 2024): listed as male
- Canada (Statistics Canada, 2024): listed as male
- Netherlands (Meertens NVB): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 44 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈkæm(ə)ɹən/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Cameron is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 280,514 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. Cameron is also written 카메론 in Korean (Hangul).
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines≈1 in 680(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 870
- USUnited States1 in 1.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Cameron itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 591 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 683 (inferred from the name graph)
280,514 people, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Cameron in other scripts: Korean (Hangul)
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Cameron
- English:/ˈkæm(ə)ɹən/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)(i) ‘person from Cameron’, a Scottish Lowlands place name probably meaning ‘bent hill’; (ii) from a Scottish Gaelic nickname meaning ‘bent nose’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Cameron, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cameron counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #500 | 280,514 | 1 in 1.2K | 253K | Cameron | 591 |
| AU Australia | #173 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 871 | 128 | Cameron | 296 |
| GB United Kingdom | #389 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | 117 | Cameron | 323 |
| CA Canada | #453 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | 23 | Cameron | 305 |
| ZA South Africa | #983 | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Cameron | 119 |
| NZ New Zealand | #206 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Cameron | 157 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 683 | 70 | — | 2 |
280,514 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Cameron is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Two origins: a place-name in Fife and a Highland personal descriptive name from Gaelic cam ‘bent, hooked’ + sron ‘nose’; earliest record Adam de Kamerum c.1214–1249.
as a nameScottish Surnames
In English, from Cameron, Fife, or from Gaelic camshrón 'wry or hook nose'; first attested Adam de Kamerum 1214-49
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Usually a boy’s name; Scottish surname from Gaelic cam 'crooked' + srón 'nose'.
as a nameIrish first names
In French, Scottish surname used as a given name, from Gaelic cam sròn, 'crooked nose'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In English, Scottish Gaelic; “crooked nose” or “crooked mouth.”
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Cameron Croweb. 1957USAmerican filmmaker and journalist (born 1957)
- Cameron Diazb. 1972USAmerican actress and model
- Cameron Boyceb. 1999USAmerican actor (1999–2019)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)92 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 44 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Cameron a male or female name?
- Cameron is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male; France (INSEE, 2024): listed as male; Canada (Statistics Canada, 2024): listed as male; Netherlands (Meertens NVB): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- What does the name Cameron mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) ‘person from Cameron’, a Scottish Lowlands place name probably meaning ‘bent hill’; (ii) from a Scottish Gaelic nickname meaning ‘bent nose’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- What are other forms of the name Cameron?
- In the etymology graph, Kameron and Camron are forms of the same name in other languages; Cam is a recorded short or pet form.
- How do you pronounce Cameron?
- In English /ˈkæm(ə)ɹən/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people named Cameron?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 281 thousand people named Cameron, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cameron. After it come Australia, United Kingdom, Canada and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Cameron?
- In the United States, the national register counted 280,514 people named Cameron in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Cameron compared with other names?
- In the United States, Cameron is the 500th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Cameron?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cameronThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cameron” — ranked 189th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.