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Kamden vs Kameryn

American parents have registered 13,264 Kamdens since 1880, against 2,896 Kameryns. Kamden is still ahead, with 395 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kamden Kameryn

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 39 years in which either name was published, Kamden for 29 years and Kameryn for 10 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Kamden Kameryn
Total US births 13,2642,896
Most in one year 925185
Babies in 2025 39530
Estimated living today 13,0002,900
Median age today 1017
Peak year 20132009
Best rank 352nd boys1,629th girls
Rank in 2025 717th6,325th
First recorded 19861988
Girls / boys 708 / 12,5562,070 / 826

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 Kameryns alive today are over 17; half the Kamdens are over 10. That is 7 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: Kamden and Kameryn.