Camry
Feminine · “crown”
Camry is given to both — 1,409 girls and 125 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Toyota names its cars crowns. Camry is from Japanese kanmuri, a crown; Corona is Latin for one; Corolla is a small one; and the Toyota Crown is the plain English. Four models, four languages, one word.
How old is the name Camry?
Camry first appears in US birth records in 1985 — 40 years ago. The typical Camry alive today was born around 2000, making them about 25 years old. About 1,400 people named Camry are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Camry most popular?
Camry peaked in 1997, reaching #1616 nationally. Today it ranks #6838, 5,222 places below that high. See the whole 1997 chart.
Where it comes from
From kanmuri to Camry
The story of Camry
The Camry was launched in 1982 and became one of the best-selling cars in the United States, which is what put the word into general American awareness. Toyota's crown convention is explicit and was applied across the range for three decades. The given name appears in American records from the late 1980s and peaks in 1997, which fits a car-derived name; it also sits within a hair of Camryn and Camri, which come from Cameron, and no individual bearer can be assigned to one route. American naming has a long history of car names, including Chevrolet, Lincoln, Mercedes and Ford, so either account is entirely ordinary.
Meaningscholars disagree
crown
Toyota's own account derives Camry from Japanese kanmuri, a crown, contracted for the export market. The company's naming convention through the 1950s to 1980s used crown words across several languages: Crown, Corona, Corolla and Camry. Separately, the American given name may simply be a respelling of Camryn or Camri, which descend from the Scottish Cameron and have no connection to any crown.
How the name formed
- kanmuri
- Camry
Related forms: Kanmuri · Camri · Camree
Pronouncing Camry
KAM-ree
Two syllables with the stress on the first. Identical to Camree and Camri, and to the car.
Nicknames for Camry
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 girls named
- 199798 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1616reached in 1997
- Change vs 2024
- −33.3%16 in 2025, from 24
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.
Camry in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Kanmuri in Japanese — related form
- Camri in English — spelling variant
- Camree in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas.
Camrys among us
people named Camry are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 100,454 born in 2025 was named Camry
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Camry
- #6838
- Camry on the 2025 chart
- #881
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Camry went to 16 girls in 2025, but Kamry, Kamri and Camri are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 79, which makes it the 881st most-given girls’ name of the year — 5,957 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 20,345 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 100,454 for Camry 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 Anel test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Camry's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Anel climbed just as high around 1974, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Anel's path sketches the road Camry is walking now.
Camry 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
Camry beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Camry in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Cam is a short, current and completely established everyday form.
- Five letters and no pronunciation ambiguity.
- A settled meaning is available if the Toyota route is claimed.
- One of the best-selling cars in America shares the name.
- Camryn and Camri are both close by and get confused with it.
- It reads as a name of the 1990s in American ears.
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Frequently asked
- How many Camrys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Camry are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Camry?
- Camry is one of 4 recorded spellings. Kamry is the more common one — 27 births in 2025 against 16 for Camry.
- How popular is the name Camry in 2025?
- Camry ranks #6838 among US girl names in 2025, with 16 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Camry?
- About 1 in every 100,454 US girls born in 2025 was named Camry — 16 in all.
- Will my child share the name Camry with classmates?
- Camry will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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