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Cambry vs Camryn

American parents have registered 35,657 Camryns since 1880, against 819 Cambrys. Camryn is still ahead, with 707 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cambry against Camryn, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cambry Camryn

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

Camryn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1974 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1988, when Cambry had 7 and Camryn had 11.

Side by side

  Cambry Camryn
Total US births 81935,657
Most in one year 492,164
Babies in 2025 28707
Estimated living today 81035,000
Median age today 1317
Peak year 20141999
Best rank 3,272nd girls158th girls
Rank in 2025 4,758th476th
First recorded 19871974
Girls / boys 819 / 030,959 / 4,698

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 Camryns alive today are over 17; half the Cambrys are over 13. That is 4 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 Camryn.