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Kamie vs Kamryn

American parents have registered 30,204 Kamryns since 1880, against 1,216 Kamies. Kamryn is still ahead, with 678 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kamie 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

Of the 69 years in which either name was published, Kamryn for 35 years and Kamie for 34 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kamie Kamryn
Total US births 1,21630,204
Most in one year 451,443
Babies in 2025 5678
Estimated living today 1,20030,000
Median age today 4015
Peak year 19782008
Best rank 2,092nd girls269th girls
Rank in 2025 14,942nd556th
First recorded 19571974
Girls / boys 1,216 / 024,809 / 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 Kamies alive today are over 40; half the Kamryns are over 15. That is 25 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: Kamie and Kamryn.