Cammy

Where Cammy comes from

Short for Camilla or Camille. Clippings + -y.
— Wiktionary's entry for Cammy
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1950
    First appearance
    #5,301 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1968
    Peak, #1,324
    70 babies named Cammy — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1974
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,396.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name.
  • A female given name.
  • Alternative form of Cammie; A male given name.
Namesakes

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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.