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Kamden vs Kameren

American parents have registered 13,264 Kamdens since 1880, against 720 Kamerens. Kamden is still ahead, with 395 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kamden Kameren

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 1996, when Kamden had 17 and Kameren had 14.

Side by side

  Kamden Kameren
Total US births 13,264720
Most in one year 92546
Babies in 2025 395under 5
Estimated living today 13,000710
Median age today 1018
Peak year 20132009
Best rank 352nd boys2,663rd boys
Rank in 2025 717thunranked
First recorded 19861991
Girls / boys 708 / 12,55683 / 637

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 Kamerens alive today are over 18; half the Kamdens are over 10. That is 8 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: Kamden and Kameren.