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Cammy

Gender
Boy
Say it
KAM-ee
Origin
Scottish
UK rank, 2025
#2,742 for boys

Cammy is a boys' name of Scottish origin, meaning “crooked nose”. In 2025 it ranked 2,742nd for boys in the UK (8 babies).

What does Cammy mean?

Scottish: pet form of Cameron, also of Camilla

“crooked nose”

Cameron comes from Gaelic cam sron, 'crooked nose', the name of a Highland clan.

More on Wiktionary.

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

Cammy is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Cammy in the UK?

Rank in 2025
2,742nd among boys
Babies in 2025
8 about 1 in 37,000 boys
Five-year trend
Steady much the same
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 8 boys in the UK were named Cammy, making it the 2,742nd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,025th.

2025 had the most boys named Cammy of any year since it first appeared, in 2006.

Among boys in 2025, it was 400th in Scotland.

2006Busiest: 8 in 20252025
Cammy in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20258#2,742
20240–
20231#6,556
20222#6,336
20210–
20204#4,025
20192#6,181
20183#4,959
20171#6,312
20162#6,340
20154#4,086
20142#6,114
20132#6,127
20121#6,332
20110–
20100–
20090–
20080–
20070–
20062#5,314

How popular is Cammy in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1968, with 70 girls. It first appears in the records in 1950.

Half of all the girls named Cammy in the US since 1880 were born between 1965 and 1990, the years shaded on the chart below.

1950Busiest: 70 in 19682024
Cammy in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20246#13,472
20236#13,456
20226#13,586
20216#13,459
20200–
201910#9,730
20187#12,459
20175#15,898
20166#14,326
20155#16,413
20148#11,925
20130–
201213#8,628
201113#8,610
201013#8,697
200913#8,884
200811#10,080
20079#11,626
20068#12,415
200515#7,495
200413#8,254
200311#9,043
200212#8,274
200110#9,344
200013#7,574
199924#4,571
199814#6,714
199724#4,367
199612#7,125
199518#5,216
199418#5,244
199311#7,491
199218#5,260
199116#5,653
199016#5,544
198911#6,949
198817#4,835
198713#5,608
198611#6,153
198519#4,125
198414#4,965
198312#5,456
198222#3,646
198112#5,570
198021#3,718
197919#3,902
197827#2,942
197732#2,606
197635#2,334
197536#2,278
197432#2,396
197337#2,127
197237#2,093
197152#1,730
197052#1,736
196961#1,517
196870#1,324
196752#1,559
196650#1,586
196560#1,421
196444#1,747
196358#1,464
196251#1,576
196136#1,920
196044#1,694
195950#1,536
195835#1,855
195716#2,925
19568#4,466
19559#4,068
19540–
19530–
19520–
19516#4,832
19505#5,299

Names like Cammy

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

Tommy, Henry, Teddy, Rory, Sonny, Remy, Colby, Bobby, Joey, Oakley, Brody, Arthur

Names related to Cammy

Camiya, Camya, Camaya, Cammie, Camyah, Cammi

More Scottish names

Isla, Finley, Logan, Arabella, Cameron, Bonnie, Paisley, Carson, Maxwell, Brodie, Finlay, Blair, Lennox, Skye, Knox, Dallas

Every Scottish name

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, “Cammy: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/cammy, updated 20 October 2026.