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Camden vs Cammi

American parents have registered 63,101 Camdens since 1880, against 674 Cammis. Camden is still ahead, with 1,873 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Camden Cammi

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

Of the 86 years in which either name was published, Camden for 77 years and Cammi for 9 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Camden Cammi
Total US births 63,101674
Most in one year 4,01838
Babies in 2025 1,873under 5
Estimated living today 62,000650
Median age today 1131
Peak year 20131998
Best rank 99th boys3,222nd girls
Rank in 2025 205thunranked
First recorded 19151958
Girls / boys 3,923 / 59,178674 / 0

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 Cammis alive today are over 31; half the Camdens are over 11. That is 20 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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