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Kamiri vs Kamryn

American parents have registered 30,204 Kamryns since 1880, against 219 Kamiris. Kamryn is still ahead, with 678 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kamiri Kamryn

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 2025, when Kamiri had 43 and Kamryn had 678.

Side by side

  Kamiri Kamryn
Total US births 21930,204
Most in one year 481,443
Babies in 2025 43678
Estimated living today 22030,000
Median age today 215
Peak year 20232008
Best rank 3,474th boys269th girls
Rank in 2025 3,848th556th
First recorded 20191974
Girls / boys 66 / 15324,809 / 5,395

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 Kamiris are over 2. That is 13 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Kamiri Kamryn
England and Wales 712

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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