The CAMERON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	52,439	578	0.019	194
United States (1880 census)	10,690	553	0.021	214
Change since 1880	+41749	-25	-0.002	-20
Other Countries
Australia	12,029	83	0.074	736
United Kingdom	23,668	224	0.052	515

Top States for CAMERON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	4,612	688	0.014	136
Florida	3,571	524	0.022	223
New York	2,867	568	0.015	151
Texas	2,824	924	0.014	135
North Carolina	2,319	493	0.029	288
Top States for CAMERON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	332	205	0.055	545
Maine	542	429	0.043	425
New Hampshire	449	380	0.036	363
Mississippi	999	427	0.035	351
Alaska	203	320	0.032	324

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CAMERON live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CAMERON represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CAMERON in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CAMERON by picking someone at random in Vermont than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CAMERON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CAMERON surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the CAMERON surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CAMERON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	881	1.68
Native American/Alaskan	351	0.67
Asian/Pacific	294	0.56
White (Caucasian)	40,834	77.87
Black/African American	8,925	17.02
White (Hispanic)	1,154	2.2

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CAMERON surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to CAMERON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CAMERON.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.