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Camden vs Camdon

American parents have registered 63,101 Camdens since 1880, against 1,034 Camdons. Camden is still ahead, with 1,873 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Camden against Camdon, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Camden Camdon

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

Camden has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1915 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1985, when Camden had 67 and Camdon had 10.

Side by side

  Camden Camdon
Total US births 63,1011,034
Most in one year 4,01870
Babies in 2025 1,8737
Estimated living today 62,0001,000
Median age today 1114
Peak year 20132011
Best rank 99th boys1,968th boys
Rank in 2025 205th9,714th
First recorded 19151985
Girls / boys 3,923 / 59,1780 / 1,034

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 Camdons alive today are over 14; half the Camdens are over 11. 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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Camden and Camdon.