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Cameo

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Cameo is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
199268 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1957
1,719people given the name
Babies named Cameo, by year of birthgirls
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

1,501 girls have been named Cameo in the United States since 1957, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1992, with 68 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 68 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1987, and the 1980s alone account for 33%.

It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 218 boys have also been given it, 13% of the total.

By decade

Decadegirls named Cameo
1950s11
1960s95
1970s279
1980s502
1990s420
2000s134
2010s54
2020s6

In 1992, its biggest year

Cameo was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1992 were Ashley, Jessica, Amanda, Brittany and Sarah. See all of 1992.

Names that rose and fell with Cameo

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.