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Cami

Gender
Girl
Say it
KAM-ee
Origin
Latin
UK rank, 2025
#3,409 for girls
US rank, 2025
#4,171 for girls

Cami is a girls' name of Latin origin, meaning “young ceremonial attendant”. In 2025 it ranked 3,409th for girls in the UK (7 babies) and 4,171st for girls in the US (34 babies).

What does Cami mean?

Latin: short for Camila, Camille or Camilla

“young ceremonial attendant”

In Roman legend Camilla was a warrior maiden and queen of the Volsci, described in Virgil's Aeneid.

More on Wiktionary.

Is Cami a girl's or a boy's name?

Cami is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the UK and 34 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Cami in the UK?

Rank in 2025
3,409th among girls
Babies in 2025
7 about 1 in 40,000 girls
Five-year trend
Rising fast up 175% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 7 girls in the UK were named Cami, making it the 3,409th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2016, with 9 girls.

2025 had more girls named Cami than any year since 2016.

Among girls in 2025, it was 3,332nd in England and Wales.

2011Busiest: 9 in 20162025
Cami in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20257#3,409
20240–
20234#4,915
20226#3,728
20215#4,148
20200–
20193#5,804
20181#7,536
20174#4,967
20169#2,893
20155#4,294
20140–
20130–
20120–
20111#7,717

How popular is Cami in the US?

Rank in 2025
4,171st among girls
Babies in 2025
34 about 1 in 47,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steady up 1% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 34 girls in the US were named Cami, making it the 4,171st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,777th. Its busiest year was 1967, with 351 girls. It first appears in the records in 1955.

It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Cami than any year since 2016.

Half of all the girls named Cami in the US since 1880 were born between 1974 and 2003, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 107 girls in the US were given Cami or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,620, up from #4,171 for this spelling alone.

1955Busiest: 351 in 19672025
Cami in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202534#4,171
202449#3,225
202351#3,181
202258#2,894
202152#3,112
202038#3,777
201942#3,610
201853#3,049
201754#3,014
201628#4,849
201543#3,595
201462#2,779
201365#2,680
201257#2,977
201170#2,554
201093#2,118
200989#2,204
2008102#2,032
2007108#1,908
200698#2,016
200588#2,105
200480#2,201
200379#2,184
2002107#1,706
200185#1,991
200093#1,841
1999103#1,619
1998102#1,595
199786#1,755
199688#1,709
199577#1,832
199476#1,857
199393#1,626
199298#1,572
199187#1,683
1990111#1,420
198996#1,493
1988124#1,209
198790#1,445
1986107#1,260
1985114#1,212
198491#1,332
198396#1,278
198294#1,325
1981101#1,271
198086#1,419
1979102#1,251
197893#1,299
1977104#1,183
197684#1,297
1975124#990
197495#1,176
197399#1,127
197279#1,289
197181#1,322
1970103#1,133
1969113#1,024
1968163#783
1967351#506
196673#1,262
196546#1,655
196448#1,666
196349#1,622
196237#1,888
196132#2,069
196030#2,096
195923#2,394
195823#2,375
195710#3,929
19565#5,951
19556#5,207

Names like Cami

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Cami: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/cami, updated 20 October 2026.