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Kamden vs Kameran

American parents have registered 13,264 Kamdens since 1880, against 678 Kamerans. Kamden is still ahead, with 395 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kamden Kameran

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 38 years in which either name was published, Kamden for 37 years and Kameran for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Kamden Kameran
Total US births 13,264678
Most in one year 92552
Babies in 2025 395under 5
Estimated living today 13,000670
Median age today 1019
Peak year 20132008
Best rank 352nd boys3,646th boys
Rank in 2025 717thunranked
First recorded 19861989
Girls / boys 708 / 12,556186 / 492

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 Kamerans alive today are over 19; half the Kamdens are over 10. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Kamden Kameran
England and Wales 3022

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kamden and Kameran.