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Camella vs Camryn

American parents have registered 35,657 Camryns since 1880, against 1,199 Camellas. Camryn is still ahead, with 707 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Camella 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 114 years in which either name was published, Camella for 76 years and Camryn for 38 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Camella Camryn
Total US births 1,19935,657
Most in one year 232,164
Babies in 2025 under 5707
Estimated living today 83035,000
Median age today 4717
Peak year 19601999
Best rank 2,512th girls158th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked476th
First recorded 19091974
Girls / boys 1,199 / 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 Camellas alive today are over 47; half the Camryns are over 17. That is 30 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: Camella and Camryn.