Camdyn
Masculine · “winding valley”
Camdyn is given to both — 3,894 boys and 2,860 girls since 1880. See Camdyn as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Camdyn respells Camden, and the English place name means the winding valley — a fold of Gloucestershire land, and a London district named for an earl.
How old is the name Camdyn?
Camdyn first appears in US birth records in 1997 — 28 years ago. The typical Camdyn is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 3,900 people named Camdyn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Camdyn most popular?
Camdyn peaked in 2016, reaching #814 nationally. Today it ranks #1886, 1,072 places below that high. See the whole 2016 chart.
Lists built from the same records:
Where it comes from
From camp denu to Camdyn
The story of Camdyn
William Camden's Britannia of 1586 was the first county-by-county survey of Britain and made the surname famous. Camden Town in London and Camden in New Jersey followed. American given-name use rose sharply from the 1990s, and the -yn respelling appears in the registers in the 2000s in current use.
Meaningscholars disagree
winding valley
From Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire, generally read from the Old English camp, 'enclosure' or 'field', and denu, 'valley'. A second reading takes the first element as a Celtic word for a bend. Camden Town is named for an earl who took the title from the surname.
How the name formed
- camp denu
- Campden
- Camden
- Camdyn
Related forms: Camden · Kamdyn · Kamden
Pronouncing Camdyn
KAM-dun
Two syllables, stress on the first. All four spellings of the sound are said identically.
Nicknames for Camdyn
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
- 1997
- Most boys named
- 2016283 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #814reached in 2016
- Change vs 2024
- −15.3%83 in 2025, from 98
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.
Camdyn in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Camden in English — spelling variant
- Kamdyn in English — spelling variant
- Kamden in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Ohio, Florida.
Camdyns among us
people named Camdyn are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 20,579 born in 2025 was named Camdyn
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Camdyn
- #1886
- Camdyn on the 2025 chart
- #737
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Camdyn went to 83 boys in 2025, but Kamdyn is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 192, which makes it the 737th most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,149 places above the chart.
- Kamdyn109
- Camdyn83
About 1 boy in 8,896 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 20,579 for Camdyn 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 Efrem test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Camdyn's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Efrem climbed just as high around 1967, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Efrem's path sketches the road Camdyn is walking now.
Camdyn 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 Camdyn is headed
Camdyn is easing off slowly — about 23% 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.
Camdyn beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Camdyn in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The winding-valley meaning is concrete and the place is real.
- A genuinely important sixteenth-century antiquary carries the surname.
- Cam is a short form with real modern currency.
- Camden is the standard spelling and will be assumed.
- At least four spellings of the sound are in circulation.
- It is thoroughly unisex in American use.
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Masculine · #1886 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Camdyns are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,900 people named Camdyn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Camdyn?
- Camdyn is one of 2 recorded spellings. Kamdyn is the more common one — 109 births in 2025 against 83 for Camdyn.
- How popular is the name Camdyn in 2025?
- Camdyn ranks #1886 among US boy names in 2025, with 83 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Camdyn?
- About 1 in every 20,579 US boys born in 2025 was named Camdyn — 83 in all.
- Will my child share the name Camdyn with classmates?
- Camdyn will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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