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Kamila vs Kamryn

American parents have registered 30,204 Kamryns since 1880, against 20,098 Kamilas. But in 2025 it was Kamila that was commoner, 851 babies to 678.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kamila 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 58 years in which either name was published, Kamila for 30 years and Kamryn for 28 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Kamila Kamryn
Total US births 20,09830,204
Most in one year 1,3831,443
Babies in 2025 851678
Estimated living today 20,00030,000
Median age today 815
Peak year 20222008
Best rank 213th girls269th girls
Rank in 2025 355th556th
First recorded 19631974
Girls / boys 20,098 / 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 Kamryns alive today are over 15; half the Kamilas are over 8. 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Kamila Kamryn
England and Wales 64812
Scotland 1523

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: Kamila and Kamryn.