Camdon
Masculine · “Old English camb and denu”
Camden is named after a scholar. William Camden wrote Britannia in 1586, the first systematic survey of the country; a house in Kent was named for him, a lawyer took the title Earl Camden from the house, and a London borough took its name from the earl.
How old is the name Camdon?
Camdon first appears in US birth records in 1985 — 40 years ago. The typical Camdon alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 1,000 people named Camdon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Camdon most popular?
Camdon peaked in 2011, reaching #1968 nationally. Today it ranks #9714, 7,746 places below that high. See the whole 2011 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Camden to Camdon
The story of Camdon
William Camden published Britannia in Latin in 1586, a county-by-county description of Britain combining topography, history, antiquities and inscriptions, and it went through six editions in his lifetime and defined the study of the British past for two centuries. He was headmaster of Westminster School, taught Ben Jonson, and founded the chair of history at Oxford that still carries his name. Camden Place in Chislehurst was named for him because he lived there. Charles Pratt, Lord Chancellor in the 1760s, acquired the house and took the title Earl Camden. His son developed land north of London in the 1790s, and Camden Town took the family name. So the borough, the market, the tube station and the American given name descend from a sixteenth-century antiquarian who never had anything to do with the place.
Meaningscholars disagree
Old English camb and denu, valley of Camb
Camdon is a respelling of Camden, an English surname and place name, generally from Old English elements meaning an enclosure or a ridge and denu, a valley. The London district is named indirectly for the antiquary William Camden through the earldom. The peak is 2011.
How the name formed
- Camden
- Camdon
Related forms: Camden · Camdyn
Pronouncing Camdon
KAM-dun
Two syllables, stress on the first. Camdon, Camden and Camdyn are homophones, because the second syllable is unstressed.
Nicknames for Camdon
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
- 1985
- Most boys named
- 201170 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1968reached in 2011
- Change vs 2024
- −41.7%7 in 2025, from 12
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.
Camdon in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Camden in English — spelling variant
- Camdyn in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas.
Camdons among us
people named Camdon are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 244,011 born in 2025 was named Camdon
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Camdon
- #9714
- Camdon on the 2025 chart
- #910
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Camdon went to 7 boys in 2025, but Kamdon is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 18, which makes it the 910th most-given boys’ name of the year — 8,804 places above the chart.
- Kamdon11
- Camdon7
About 1 boy in 94,893 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 244,011 for Camdon 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 Kelson test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Camdon's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Kelson climbed just as high around 1990, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Kelson's path sketches the road Camdon is walking now.
Camdon 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
Camdon beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Camdon in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Cam and Don are both usable short forms.
- Two syllables with a firm first-syllable stress.
- It is a genuine English place name and surname.
- Camden is far commoner and reads as correct.
- Several spellings compete for the same sound.
- The 2011 peak makes it recent.
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Masculine · #9714 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Camdons 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 Camdon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Camdon?
- Camdon is one of 2 recorded spellings. Kamdon is the more common one — 11 births in 2025 against 7 for Camdon.
- How popular is the name Camdon in 2025?
- Camdon ranks #9714 among US boy names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Camdon?
- About 1 in every 244,011 US boys born in 2025 was named Camdon — 7 in all.
- Will my child share the name Camdon with classmates?
- Camdon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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