Given name & surname
Cambria
“a woman of Wales”
Cambria is used as a given name and a surname. One Latin interpretation is “a woman of Wales.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “a woman of Wales.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
How it developed
From Medieval Latin Cambria, from Middle Welsh Kymry, from Proto-Brythonic *kömrüɣ.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1963. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Cambria through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 6,206
- 0 boys · 6,206 girls
- Most popular year
- 2012
- 275 babies
- 2025
- 96
- #1,993 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −32%
- Easing
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 96 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 1,993 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 32.5% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 275 in 2012. In 2025, California had the largest reported state-level birth count for girls with this name (32). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,903 as a first name in 2020; 938 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Cambria’s family of names
Cambria has a related form in Cambrie. Cambria has a related form in Cambree. Cambria has a related form in Cambry.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 10
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Cambrievariant
- Cambreevariant
- Cambrivariant
- Cambryvariant
- Cambreyvariant
- Cambrevariant
- Cambreavariant
- Cambriahvariant
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Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Cambria
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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