Cameron

Where Cameron comes from

From Scottish Gaelic Camshròn, from cam (“crooked, bent”) + sròn (“nose”). Compare Campbell, from Scottish Gaelic cam (“crooked”) + beul (“mouth”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Cameron
  • 3 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1882
    First appearance
    #837 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1972
    Cameron Diaz born
    American actress and model
  3. 1999
    Cameron Boyce born
    American actor
  4. 2000
    Peak, #31
    12,767 babies named Cameron — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2017
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #60.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name.
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
  • A female given name transferred from the surname, of 1970s and later usage.
Namesakes
  • Cameron Diaz · American actress and model, born 1972
  • Cameron Boyce · American actor, 1999–2019
  • Cameron Crowe · American filmmaker and journalist, born 1957
  • Cameron Monaghan · American actor and model, born 1993
  • Cameron Borthwick-Jackson · English association football player, born 1997

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.