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Camryn vs Camrynn

American parents have registered 35,657 Camryns since 1880, against 718 Camrynns. Camryn is still ahead, with 707 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Camryn Camrynn

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

Camryn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1974 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2014, when Camryn had 1,000 and Camrynn had 42.

Side by side

  Camryn Camrynn
Total US births 35,657718
Most in one year 2,16452
Babies in 2025 70718
Estimated living today 35,000710
Median age today 1714
Peak year 19992009
Best rank 158th girls3,561st girls
Rank in 2025 476th6,325th
First recorded 19741997
Girls / boys 30,959 / 4,698682 / 36

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 Camrynns are over 14. That is 3 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: Camryn and Camrynn.