Cambree
Feminine
Cambree is a recent American name with an old word sitting just behind it, unproven. Cambria is the Latin name for Wales, and it comes from the Welsh word the Welsh use for themselves. Whether Cambree descends from it is another question.
How old is the name Cambree?
Cambree first appears in US birth records in 1992 — 33 years ago. The typical Cambree is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 2,300 people named Cambree are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Cambree most popular?
Cambree peaked in 2013, reaching #1178 nationally. Today it ranks #2751, 1,573 places below that high. See the whole 2013 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Cambree
Our story of Cambree is about a word that has always meant belonging. Cymru is what Welsh speakers call their own country, and the word underneath it means the people who are ours — chosen deliberately, because the name their English-speaking neighbors used for them meant foreigners. Latin turned Cymru into Cambria and that is the form the wider world learned. Whether this name came down that road we cannot say. But if you are going to have a name whose origin nobody wrote down, it is a fine thing to have it standing this close to a word that a whole nation picked to say we are not strangers here.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Cambria is genuine: the Romans and later Latin writers used it for Wales, taking it from Cymru, which comes from a Brythonic word meaning 'fellow countrymen' — the Welsh name for the Welsh, as opposed to what their neighbors called them. That is documented. What is not documented is any line from Cambria to Cambree. The name appears in American records without a recorded derivation, and the -ee ending belongs to modern American naming rather than to Latin or Welsh.
Pronouncing Cambree
KAM-bree
Two syllables, stress on the first. The sound is unambiguous; the entire difficulty of this name is on paper rather than in the mouth.
Nicknames for Cambree
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1992
- Most girls named
- 2013204 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1178reached in 2013
- Change vs 2024
- +34.8%62 in 2025, from 46
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Cambree in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Tennessee, Louisiana.
Cambrees among us
people named Cambree are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 25,924 born in 2025 was named Cambree
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Cambree
- #2751
- Cambree on the 2025 chart
- #850
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Cambree went to 62 girls in 2025, but Kambree is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 110, which makes it the 850th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,901 places above the chart.
- Cambree62
- Kambree48
About 1 girl in 14,612 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 25,924 for Cambree itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Alean test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Cambree's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Alean climbed just as high around 1912, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Alean's path sketches the road Cambree is walking now.
Cambree sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Cambree is headed
Cambree is easing off slowly — about 21% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Cambree beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Cambree in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Two easy syllables said correctly by every English speaker on sight.
- Cam and Bree are both natural short forms and both stand alone as names.
- Distinctive without being hard to say, which is the balance most new names miss.
- Its origin is not recorded, so any meaning given for it has been supplied rather than found.
- Cambree, Cambrie, Kambrie and Cambry are all in use and none is standard.
- The spelling will need saying every time the name is written down.
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Frequently asked
- How many Cambrees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,300 people named Cambree are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Cambree?
- Cambree is the most-used spelling in US records — 62 of the 110 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Kambree.
- How popular is the name Cambree in 2025?
- Cambree ranks #2751 among US girl names in 2025, with 62 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Cambree?
- About 1 in every 25,924 US girls born in 2025 was named Cambree — 62 in all.
- Will my child share the name Cambree with classmates?
- Cambree will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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