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Kamran vs Kamryn

American parents have registered 30,204 Kamryns since 1880, against 2,408 Kamrans. Kamryn is still ahead, with 678 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kamran 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 56 years in which either name was published, Kamryn for 35 years and Kamran for 21 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Kamran Kamryn
Total US births 2,40830,204
Most in one year 941,443
Babies in 2025 50678
Estimated living today 2,40030,000
Median age today 1815
Peak year 20072008
Best rank 1,638th boys269th girls
Rank in 2025 2,604th556th
First recorded 19651974
Girls / boys 10 / 2,39824,809 / 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 Kamrans 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.

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 Kamran Kamryn
England and Wales 1,66512
Scotland 10523

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: Kamran and Kamryn.