Cambrie
Feminine
Cambrie joins a Cam- front to the -brie ending, and the Cam may be Cambria — the Latin name for Wales, from the Welsh word for compatriots.
How old is the name Cambrie?
Cambrie first appears in US birth records in 1986 — 39 years ago. The typical Cambrie is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 2,400 people named Cambrie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Cambrie most popular?
Cambrie peaked in 2017, reaching #1251 nationally. Today it ranks #1962, 711 places below that high. See the whole 2017 chart.
Where it comes from
From Cymru to Cambrie
Our story of Cambrie
Our story of Cambrie is a story of a front with a good possible ancestor. Cymru is what the Welsh call Wales and means the fellow countrymen — a people naming themselves for their kinship rather than their land, which is unusual. Latin made Cambria from it. Whether any American family reaching for Cambrie had that in mind is not recorded; the name appears in the registers in the 2000s, and the front is shared with Cameron and Camille too.
Meaningscholars disagree
Not established
The Cam- front may reflect Cambria, the Latin name for Wales, from the Welsh Cymru, 'fellow countrymen'. It may reflect Cameron or Camille. The -brie ending is a modern American addition, possibly from Brie. None is documented for this compound.
How the name formed
- Cymru
- Cambria
- Cambrie
Related forms: Cambree · Cambria · Cymru
Pronouncing Cambrie
KAM-bree
Two syllables, stress on the first. Cambrie and Cambree are said identically.
Nicknames for Cambrie
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
- 1986
- Most girls named
- 2017189 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1251reached in 2017
- Change vs 2024
- +60.7%98 in 2025, from 61
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.
Cambrie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Cambree in English — spelling variant
- Cambria in Latin — related form
- Cymru in Welsh — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Ohio, Florida.
Cambries among us
people named Cambrie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 16,401 born in 2025 was named Cambrie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Cambrie
- #1962
- Cambrie on the 2025 chart
- #799
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Cambrie went to 98 girls in 2025, but Kambrie is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 161, which makes it the 799th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,163 places above the chart.
- Cambrie98
- Kambrie63
About 1 girl in 9,983 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 16,401 for Cambrie 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 Jacinta test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Cambrie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jacinta climbed just as high around 1982, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jacinta's path sketches the road Cambrie is walking now.
Cambrie 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 Cambrie is headed
Cambrie is easing off slowly — about 20% 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.
Cambrie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Cambrie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The Cymru meaning — a people named for their kinship — is genuinely fine.
- Cam and Brie are two short forms, both with real currency.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- The descent from Cambria is possible rather than documented.
- Brie is also a cheese, which the clipping invokes.
- It is very new and will need spelling out.
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Frequently asked
- How many Cambries are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,400 people named Cambrie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Cambrie?
- Cambrie is the most-used spelling in US records — 98 of the 161 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Kambrie.
- How popular is the name Cambrie in 2025?
- Cambrie ranks #1962 among US girl names in 2025, with 98 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Cambrie?
- About 1 in every 16,401 US girls born in 2025 was named Cambrie — 98 in all.
- Will my child share the name Cambrie with classmates?
- Cambrie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Cambrie
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