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Kammy vs Kamryn

American parents have registered 30,204 Kamryns since 1880, against 662 Kammys. Kamryn is still ahead, with 678 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kammy 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 41 years and Kammy for 28 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Kammy Kamryn
Total US births 66230,204
Most in one year 421,443
Babies in 2025 under 5678
Estimated living today 62030,000
Median age today 5215
Peak year 19622008
Best rank 1,757th girls269th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked556th
First recorded 19571974
Girls / boys 662 / 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 Kammys alive today are over 52; half the Kamryns are over 15. That is 37 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: Kammy and Kamryn.