Cambri
Feminine
Cambri ends in the shortest feminine ending American naming has produced. The -i is newer than -ie, -ee and -ey, and it is doing the same job with one letter — which is roughly where two centuries of respelling have arrived.
How old is the name Cambri?
Cambri first appears in US birth records in 1981 — 44 years ago. The typical Cambri is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,000 people named Cambri are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Cambri most popular?
Cambri peaked in 2016, reaching #2866 nationally. Today it ranks #3067, 201 places below that high. See the whole 2016 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Cambri
Our story of Cambri is about an ending shrinking. English girls' names ending in that sound have been spelled -y for centuries, then -ie, then -ee, then -ey, and now -i. Each spelling was distinctive when it arrived and ordinary within a generation, at which point families moved on. The -i is the shortest available and there is nowhere further to go: one letter, no decoration, the barest possible way to mark the ending. Whatever this name descends from, its final letter is a small and precise piece of history — the last stop on a road that has been running since Victorian nurseries.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Nothing is documented. Cambria is the Latin name for Wales, from Welsh Cymru, and that word is genuine and old. No line from Cambria to Cambri is recorded, and the -i ending belongs entirely to recent American practice — it is the current end point of a long chain of respellings, in which each ending becomes common and then families reach for a shorter or rarer one.
Pronouncing Cambri
KAM-bree
Two syllables, stress on the first. There is no ambiguity in the sound; the entire difficulty of this name is which of five endings the spelling uses.
Nicknames for Cambri
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
- 1981
- Most girls named
- 201659 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2866reached in 2016
- Change vs 2024
- +6.0%53 in 2025, from 50
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.
Cambri in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Cambrie in English — spelling variant
- Kambrie in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Ohio, Tennessee.
Cambris among us
people named Cambri are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 30,326 born in 2025 was named Cambri
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Cambri
- #3067
- Cambri on the 2025 chart
- #833
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Cambri went to 53 girls in 2025, but Kambri, Cambry and Kambry are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 127, which makes it the 833rd most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,234 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 12,656 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 30,326 for Cambri 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 Danah test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Cambri's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Danah climbed just as high around 1980, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Danah's path sketches the road Cambri is walking now.
Cambri 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 Cambri is headed
Cambri should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
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.
Cambri beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Cambri in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Cam and Bri are both natural short forms and both stand alone as names.
- Two easy syllables that every English speaker says correctly on sight.
- Short and clean, which pairs well with a longer surname.
- Cambri, Cambrie, Cambree and Kambrie are all in use and none is standard.
- It has no documented origin, so any meaning offered for it has been supplied.
- The spelling will need giving letter by letter for the child's whole life.
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Frequently asked
- How many Cambris are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Cambri are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Cambri?
- Cambri is the most-used spelling in US records — 53 of the 127 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Kambri, Cambry and Kambry.
- How popular is the name Cambri in 2025?
- Cambri ranks #3067 among US girl names in 2025, with 53 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Cambri?
- About 1 in every 30,326 US girls born in 2025 was named Cambri — 53 in all.
- Will my child share the name Cambri with classmates?
- Cambri will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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