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Kambry vs Kamden

American parents have registered 13,264 Kamdens since 1880, against 579 Kambrys. Kamden is still ahead, with 395 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kambry 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 1992, when Kambry had 5 and Kamden had 10.

Side by side

  Kambry Kamden
Total US births 57913,264
Most in one year 41925
Babies in 2025 10395
Estimated living today 58013,000
Median age today 1210
Peak year 20142013
Best rank 3,719th girls352nd boys
Rank in 2025 9,457th717th
First recorded 19921986
Girls / boys 579 / 0708 / 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 Kambrys alive today are over 12; half the Kamdens are over 10. That is 2 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: Kambry and Kamden.