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Camden vs Camrin

American parents have registered 63,101 Camdens since 1880, against 1,273 Camrins. Camden is still ahead, with 1,873 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Camden Camrin

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 Camden had 97 and Camrin had 13.

Side by side

  Camden Camrin
Total US births 63,1011,273
Most in one year 4,01895
Babies in 2025 1,873under 5
Estimated living today 62,0001,300
Median age today 1119
Peak year 20132006
Best rank 99th boys1,808th boys
Rank in 2025 205thunranked
First recorded 19151986
Girls / boys 3,923 / 59,178226 / 1,047

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 Camrins 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.

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: Camden and Camrin.