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Camari vs Camden

American parents have registered 63,101 Camdens since 1880, against 2,774 Camaris. Camden is still ahead, with 1,873 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Camari against Camden, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Camari Camden

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Camden has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1915 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2022, when Camari had 145 and Camden had 2,144.

Side by side

  Camari Camden
Total US births 2,77463,101
Most in one year 1504,018
Babies in 2025 1161,873
Estimated living today 2,80062,000
Median age today 1011
Peak year 20222013
Best rank 1,839th boys99th boys
Rank in 2025 1,837th205th
First recorded 19931915
Girls / boys 1,121 / 1,6533,923 / 59,178

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Camari Camden
England and Wales 14422

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Camari and Camden.