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Camden vs Camreigh

American parents have registered 63,101 Camdens since 1880, against 223 Camreighs. Camden is still ahead, with 1,873 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Camden Camreigh

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 2017, when Camden had 2,809 and Camreigh had 91.

Side by side

  Camden Camreigh
Total US births 63,101223
Most in one year 4,01891
Babies in 2025 1,873under 5
Estimated living today 62,000220
Median age today 117
Peak year 20132017
Best rank 99th boys2,108th girls
Rank in 2025 205thunranked
First recorded 19152017
Girls / boys 3,923 / 59,178223 / 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 Camdens alive today are over 11; half the Camreighs are over 7. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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