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Kamryn vs Kamyla

American parents have registered 30,204 Kamryns since 1880, against 998 Kamylas. Kamryn is still ahead, with 678 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kamryn Kamyla

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 Kamyla had 62.

Side by side

  Kamryn Kamyla
Total US births 30,204998
Most in one year 1,44362
Babies in 2025 67840
Estimated living today 30,000990
Median age today 1510
Peak year 20082011
Best rank 269th girls2,796th girls
Rank in 2025 556th3,712th
First recorded 19742000
Girls / boys 24,809 / 5,395998 / 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 Kamylas are over 10. That is 5 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 Kamyla.