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Kamauri vs Kamden

American parents have registered 13,264 Kamdens since 1880, against 1,143 Kamauris. Kamden is still ahead, with 395 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kamauri against Kamden, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kamauri Kamden

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

Kamden has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1986 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2006, when Kamauri had 92 and Kamden had 288.

Side by side

  Kamauri Kamden
Total US births 1,14313,264
Most in one year 116925
Babies in 2025 24395
Estimated living today 1,10013,000
Median age today 1410
Peak year 20092013
Best rank 1,742nd boys352nd boys
Rank in 2025 5,045th717th
First recorded 19991986
Girls / boys 343 / 800708 / 12,556

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 Kamauris alive today are over 14; half the Kamdens are over 10. That is 4 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: Kamauri and Kamden.