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Camryn

Masculine · “crooked nose”

Camryn is given to both — 4,698 boys and 30,959 girls since 1880. See Camryn as a girl nameSee other names given to both

1987high 2009
#2230 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare63 boys in 2025

Camryn respells Cameron, and the Scottish Gaelic cam sròn means crooked nose — an ancestor's actual face.

How old is the name Camryn?

Camryn first appears in US birth records in 1987 — 38 years ago. The typical Camryn alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 4,600 people named Camryn are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Camryn most popular?

Camryn peaked in 2009, reaching #783 nationally. Today it ranks #2230, 1,447 places below that high. See the whole 2009 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Camryn

Clan Cameron of Lochaber takes its name from a bent-nosed ancestor, and Campbell is 'crooked mouth' from the same Highland habit of honest bynames. Cameron became a unisex American given name, and Camryn is a modern respelling used chiefly for girls; masculine use appears in the registers in current use.

Meaning

crooked nose

Through Cameron, from the Scottish Gaelic cam sròn, 'crooked nose', a byname for a clan chief. A separate Cameron place name comes from cam brun, 'crooked hill'. The clan name's nose reading is standard and documented.

How the name formed

  1. cam sròn
  2. Cameron
  3. Camryn

Related forms: Cameron · Kamryn · Camshròn

Pronouncing Camryn

KAM-rin

Two syllables, stress on the first. Cameron has three in careful speech.

Nicknames for Camryn

Moderate

CamThe front clipping, and a short form with real modern currency
RynThe back of the name, used inside families rather than generally
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

BOYS NAMED · 1987–202529014502906319872025

US babies named Camryn per year from 1987 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#7831980s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1987
Most boys named
2009290 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#783reached in 2009
Change vs 2024
−37.6%63 in 2025, from 101
Camryn sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2009, with 290 boys. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

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.

Camryn in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • Cameron in English — spelling variant
  • Kamryn in English — spelling variant
  • Camshròn in Scottish Gaelic — related form

Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, New York, Florida.

Camryns among us

4,600

people named Camryn are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 boy in 27,112 born in 2025 was named Camryn

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Camryn

#2230
Camryn on the 2025 chart
#720
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Camryn went to 63 boys in 2025, but Kamryn and Kamrin are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 209, which makes it the 720th most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,510 places above the chart.

About 1 boy in 8,173 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 27,112 for Camryn 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

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Is it right for you

The Ishmael test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Camryn's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Ishmael climbed just as high around 1912, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Ishmael's path sketches the road Camryn is walking now.

40%chance Camryn will feel “very 2000s” by 2040
Camryn, aligned on its peakIshmael· peak 1912not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-30 yrs+70 yrsIshmael · #1350Camryn today
Camryn today is about where Ishmael stood in 1928 — 16 years past a #783-sized peak. By 1943, Ishmael had settled around #1979.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Camryn 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 Camryn is headed

19872030

US babies named Camryn per year, 1987 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Camryn should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.

Steady-11% by 2030projected around #2,540 in 2030

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.

Camryn beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Camryn in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Camrynthis name63#2230Rayaan63#2230Tyce63#2230Earl63#2230Gene63#2230

US boys given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • That Cameron and Campbell both name a crooked body part is a first-rate fact.
  • Cam is available as a short form with real currency.
  • Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
What to consider
  • Cameron is overwhelmingly the standard spelling.
  • The -ryn spelling reads as feminine in America.
  • The literal meaning is unflattering.

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Frequently asked

How many Camryns are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,600 people named Camryn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Camryn?
Camryn is one of 3 recorded spellings. Kamryn is the more common one — 134 births in 2025 against 63 for Camryn.
How popular is the name Camryn in 2025?
Camryn ranks #2230 among US boy names in 2025, with 63 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Camryn?
About 1 in every 27,112 US boys born in 2025 was named Camryn — 63 in all.
Will my child share the name Camryn with classmates?
Camryn will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Ranked beside Camryn

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Rayaan#2230 · Tyce#2230 · Earl#2230 · Gene#2230 · Sylis#2230 · Vinny#2230 · Klaus#2230 · Damoni#2230

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