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Kamdon vs Kamila

American parents have registered 20,098 Kamilas since 1880, against 557 Kamdons. Kamila is still ahead, with 851 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kamdon against Kamila, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kamdon Kamila

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

Kamila has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1963 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1997, when Kamdon had 5 and Kamila had 50.

Side by side

  Kamdon Kamila
Total US births 55720,098
Most in one year 471,383
Babies in 2025 11851
Estimated living today 55020,000
Median age today 128
Peak year 20162022
Best rank 2,626th boys213th girls
Rank in 2025 7,194th355th
First recorded 19971963
Girls / boys 0 / 55720,098 / 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 Kamdons alive today are over 12; half the Kamilas are over 8. That is 4 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: Kamdon and Kamila.