girls:
3.6k births since 1963
#2866 (50th percentile)
boys:
55.6k births since 1915
#461 (90th percentile)
overall:
59.2k births since 1915
#969 (87th percentile)
The name Camden is the #969 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 59,195 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 87.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #461 (90.0% percentile) for all time with 55,557 births since 1915. For girls, it ranks #2,866 (49.9% percentile) for all time with 3,638 births since 1963.
Camden first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for boys and 1963 for girls). Birth data for Camden is available in 81 out of the 109 years between 1915 and 2023 (81 years for boys and 52 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Camden has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 93.9% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 94.1% of babies named Camden were boys.
For boys, Camden reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 89.0% percentile (ranked #100) with 1,900 births per million. The name was most common in 2013, with 1,929 births per million (ranked 89.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Camden ranks #178 for boys (80.5% percentile) with 1,097 births per million, which is 56.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Camden reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 17.7% percentile (ranked #789) with 87 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 87 births per million (ranked 17.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Camden ranks #826 for girls (12.8% percentile) with 72 births per million, which is 82.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Camden".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Camden. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 86.0% confident that Camden is pronounced as KAM-duhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAM-dihn, at 14.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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