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Cambry vs Camden

American parents have registered 63,101 Camdens since 1880, against 819 Cambrys. Camden is still ahead, with 1,873 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Cambry 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 1988, when Cambry had 7 and Camden had 97.

Side by side

  Cambry Camden
Total US births 81963,101
Most in one year 494,018
Babies in 2025 281,873
Estimated living today 81062,000
Median age today 1311
Peak year 20142013
Best rank 3,272nd girls99th boys
Rank in 2025 4,758th205th
First recorded 19871915
Girls / boys 819 / 03,923 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Cambrys alive today are over 13; half the Camdens are over 11. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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

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