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Kambri vs Kamryn

American parents have registered 30,204 Kamryns since 1880, against 1,111 Kambris. Kamryn is still ahead, with 678 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kambri against Kamryn, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kambri Kamryn

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

Kamryn 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 1989, when Kambri had 6 and Kamryn had 26.

Side by side

  Kambri Kamryn
Total US births 1,11130,204
Most in one year 771,443
Babies in 2025 36678
Estimated living today 1,10030,000
Median age today 1115
Peak year 20172008
Best rank 2,357th girls269th girls
Rank in 2025 3,975th556th
First recorded 19891974
Girls / boys 1,111 / 024,809 / 5,395

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 Kamryns alive today are over 15; half the Kambris are over 11. 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: Kambri and Kamryn.