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Boy · Scottish Gaelic
Cameron
Say it: KAM-er-un
Meaning
From a Scottish clan surname, traditionally from Gaelic cam-shròn 'crooked nose'; the Lowland surname is from a place name.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
A Scottish surname used as a first name, popular in the US from the 1980s; also used for girls.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 1990s
In the United States
- 317,202 babies given this name since 1882
- At its height in 1999, about 1 in 154 boys
- 5,638 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Camron, Kameron
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.