Camden

3,073 people in the United States were counted with the surname Camden in the 2020 census, making it the 10,014th most common in the country. That is about one person in 97,300.

By the numbers

People: 3,073
Rank: 10,014th
How common: 1 in 97,300
Per 100,000: 1.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English campas (“enclosure”) + denu (“valley”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Camden described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 88.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Camden

William Camden (1551–1623)(1551–1623) English antiquarian

People named Camden with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Camden

Also a first name

Camden has been given to 63,101 American babies as a first name since 1915, peaking in 2013. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.