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Camden vs Camri

American parents have registered 63,101 Camdens since 1880, against 754 Camris. Camden is still ahead, with 1,873 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Camden Camri

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 1973, when Camden had 8 and Camri had 7.

Side by side

  Camden Camri
Total US births 63,101754
Most in one year 4,01836
Babies in 2025 1,87312
Estimated living today 62,000750
Median age today 1119
Peak year 20131995
Best rank 99th boys3,152nd girls
Rank in 2025 205th8,362nd
First recorded 19151973
Girls / boys 3,923 / 59,178754 / 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 Camris alive today are over 19; half the Camdens are over 11. That is 8 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 Camri.