How rare is the name Kameron?

31,632 people in the United States have the first name Kameron, about 1 in 9,548. It ranks #1,217 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

KAMERON

#1,217

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
31,632
About
1 in 9,548
This common or more
72.7%
Who bears it

Of the 31,632 people named Kameron, 42.2% reported their origin as White, 39.4% as Black and 9% as two or more races. 88.1% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Kameron peaked in 2015, when 1,560 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19562025
Peak year
2015
Births that year
1,560
In 2025*
697 ▼55%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 43,443 babies have been given the name since 1956. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Kameron by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #483. The largest share of babies named Kameron, 50%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1950s#12,23212
1960s#5,648127
1970s#2,970502
1980s#1,6491,598
1990s#6648,220
2000s#48313,951
2010s#50913,692
2020s#7225,341
Baby boom 1946–640.1%
Generation X 1965–801.5%
Millennials 1981–9614%
Generation Z 1997–1250%
2013 and later34.4%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Kameron is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kameron has been most common in Mississippi (2.2×), Georgia (2.2×), and Louisiana (2×), and least common in District of Columbia (0.27×).

39,505 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Kameron

#1,215 Reid · 31,675#1,216 Eunice · 31,650#1,218 Helena · 31,617#1,219 Drake · 31,584

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Kameron, most common first.

#1,510 Kamryn · 22,000#3,598 Kamron · 5,687#4,554 Kamran · 4,047#5,063 Kamren · 3,481#6,828 Kameryn · 2,304#9,514 Kamarion · 1,455#10,057 Kamrin · 1,346#17,471 Kameran · 631

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