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Kameren vs Kamryn

American parents have registered 30,204 Kamryns since 1880, against 720 Kamerens. Kamryn is still ahead, with 678 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kameren Kamryn

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

Kamryn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1974 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1991, when Kameren had 6 and Kamryn had 32.

Side by side

  Kameren Kamryn
Total US births 72030,204
Most in one year 461,443
Babies in 2025 under 5678
Estimated living today 71030,000
Median age today 1815
Peak year 20092008
Best rank 2,663rd boys269th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked556th
First recorded 19911974
Girls / boys 83 / 63724,809 / 5,395

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 Kamryns are over 15. That is 3 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: Kameren and Kamryn.