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Camden vs Camdyn

American parents have registered 63,101 Camdens since 1880, against 6,754 Camdyns. Camden is still ahead, with 1,873 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Camden Camdyn

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 2010, when Camden had 2,225 and Camdyn had 364.

Side by side

  Camden Camdyn
Total US births 63,1016,754
Most in one year 4,018416
Babies in 2025 1,873149
Estimated living today 62,0006,700
Median age today 1111
Peak year 20132016
Best rank 99th boys814th boys
Rank in 2025 205th1,886th
First recorded 19151997
Girls / boys 3,923 / 59,1782,860 / 3,894

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.

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 Camdyn.