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Kamryn vs Kamyah

American parents have registered 30,204 Kamryns since 1880, against 1,017 Kamyahs. Kamryn is still ahead, with 678 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kamryn Kamyah

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 2020, when Kamryn had 936 and Kamyah had 49.

Side by side

  Kamryn Kamyah
Total US births 30,2041,017
Most in one year 1,44365
Babies in 2025 67821
Estimated living today 30,0001,000
Median age today 1513
Peak year 20082008
Best rank 269th girls2,773rd girls
Rank in 2025 556th5,722nd
First recorded 19741998
Girls / boys 24,809 / 5,3951,017 / 0

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 Kamyahs are over 13. That is 2 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: Kamryn and Kamyah.