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Camdon vs Camryn

American parents have registered 35,657 Camryns since 1880, against 1,034 Camdons. Camryn is still ahead, with 707 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Camdon 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

Of the 47 years in which either name was published, Camryn for 46 years and Camdon for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Camdon Camryn
Total US births 1,03435,657
Most in one year 702,164
Babies in 2025 7707
Estimated living today 1,00035,000
Median age today 1417
Peak year 20111999
Best rank 1,968th boys158th girls
Rank in 2025 9,714th476th
First recorded 19851974
Girls / boys 0 / 1,03430,959 / 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 Camdons are over 14. That is 3 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: Camdon and Camryn.