Cameo
Last seen for girls in 2020 at #13,453 · Last seen for boys in 2017 at #12,246
Given to girls 87.3% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 1980 · 55 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,501since 1957
Cameo over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | — | ||
| 2024 | — | — | ||
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| 2021 | — | — | ||
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | — | |
| 2019 | — | — | ||
| 2018 | #12,464 | 7 | — | |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #9,664 | 7 |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | — | |
| 2014 | #8,966 | 12 | #8,781 | 8 |
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 | #8,789 | 8 |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 | — | |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | — | #12,231 | 5 | |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | — | |
| 2008 | #10,084 | 11 | — | |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | — | |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 | — | |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #6,576 | 17 | #9,581 | 6 |
| 2002 | #6,698 | 16 | — | |
| 2001 | #5,822 | 19 | — | |
| 2000 | #4,185 | 29 | — | |
| 1999 | #3,443 | 36 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | #3,914 | 29 | — | |
| 1997 | #3,547 | 32 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,966 | 40 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,735 | 44 | — | |
| 1994 | #3,038 | 38 | #5,452 | 10 |
| 1993 | #2,127 | 63 | #6,816 | 7 |
| 1992 | #2,010 | 68 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #3,207 | 34 | #5,942 | 8 |
| 1990 | #3,078 | 36 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | #2,222 | 54 | #4,811 | 10 |
| 1988 | #2,274 | 49 | #4,162 | 11 |
| 1987 | #2,276 | 47 | #2,725 | 19 |
| 1986 | #2,052 | 52 | #4,130 | 10 |
| 1985 | #2,021 | 53 | #3,599 | 12 |
| 1984 | #2,192 | 45 | #3,925 | 10 |
| 1983 | #2,272 | 42 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,965 | 53 | #4,234 | 9 |
| 1981 | #2,009 | 52 | #2,680 | 17 |
| 1980 | #1,936 | 55 | #3,098 | 14 |
| 1979 | #2,020 | 50 | #3,569 | 11 |
| 1978 | #2,191 | 42 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,909 | 27 | — | |
| 1976 | #2,602 | 30 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,811 | 26 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,213 | 36 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,565 | 28 | — | |
| 1972 | #3,276 | 19 | — | |
| 1971 | #5,543 | 9 | — | |
| 1970 | #4,492 | 12 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,456 | 8 | — | |
| 1968 | #2,630 | 23 | — | |
| 1967 | #3,845 | 12 | — | |
| 1966 | #4,866 | 8 | — | |
| 1965 | #4,494 | 9 | — | |
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| 1963 | #4,539 | 9 | — | |
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| 1961 | #2,752 | 20 | — | |
| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 | — | |
| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 | — | |
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| 1957 | #5,377 | 6 | — | |
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First appearance
1957
The first year at least five girls were named Cameo! It came in at #5,377, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1958–1959, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
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Momentum · girls
Faded out
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2020
Rise & fade · girls
23 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1957
- Peaked 1980 at #1,936 (55 births)
- Births halved by 2001, 21 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 27,117
- Highest: 1 in 27,117 girls born in 1992 were named Cameo (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 269,425 girls born in 2020 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,936 in 1980, was only 1 in 30,187 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1980s
- 33.4% of all girls named Cameo (502) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2017
- Mostly boys until 2016, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 11 | #5,377 (1957) | #5,811 |
| 1960s | 95 | #2,630 (1968) | #4,285 |
| 1970s | 279 | #2,020 (1979) | #3,062 |
| 1980s | 502 | #1,936 (1980) | #2,122 |
| 1990s | 420 | #2,010 (1992) | #3,007 |
| 2000s | 134 | #4,185 (2000) | #9,508 |
| 2010s | 54 | #8,966 (2014) | #14,071 |
| 2020s | 6 | #13,453 (2020) | #13,453 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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