girls:
1.5k births since 1957
#4242 (26th percentile)
boys:
218 births since 1979
#4368 (5th percentile)
overall:
1.7k births since 1957
#6032 (22nd percentile)
The name Cameo is the #6,032 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,719 recorded births since 1957. This represents the 22.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 22.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,242 (25.8% percentile) for all time with 1,501 births since 1957. For boys, it ranks #4,368 (4.7% percentile) for all time with 218 births since 1979.
Cameo first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1957 (1957 for girls and 1979 for boys). Birth data for Cameo is available in 60 out of the 64 years between 1957 and 2020 (59 years for girls and 25 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Cameo has been given predominantly to girls, with 87.3% of all recorded births being female. In 2020, 100.0% of babies named Cameo were girls.
For girls, Cameo reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 7.3% percentile (ranked #796) with 34 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 34 births per million (ranked 7.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
For boys, Cameo reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #699) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 10 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cameo".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Cameo. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.0% confident that Cameo is pronounced as KA-mee-oh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kuh-MEE-oh, at 25.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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