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Kamden vs Kamiah

American parents have registered 13,264 Kamdens since 1880, against 1,782 Kamiahs. Kamden is still ahead, with 395 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kamden Kamiah

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 1990, when Kamden had 7 and Kamiah had 6.

Side by side

  Kamden Kamiah
Total US births 13,2641,782
Most in one year 925125
Babies in 2025 39546
Estimated living today 13,0001,800
Median age today 1013
Peak year 20132016
Best rank 352nd boys1,704th girls
Rank in 2025 717th3,342nd
First recorded 19861990
Girls / boys 708 / 12,5561,782 / 0

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 Kamiahs alive today are over 13; half the Kamdens are over 10. That is 3 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Kamden Kamiah
England and Wales 3030

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 Kamiah.