Camrynn
Feminine · “crooked nose”
Camrynn is given to both — 682 girls and 36 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Cameron, Camryn, Camrynn: each step moves one letter further from the boy's spelling, and you can read the sequence as a measurement. The distance a name has to travel before it stops reading as male turns out to be about three letters.
How old is the name Camrynn?
Camrynn first appears in US birth records in 1997 — 28 years ago. The typical Camrynn alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 700 people named Camrynn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Camrynn most popular?
Camrynn peaked in 2009, reaching #3561 nationally. Today it ranks #6325, 2,764 places below that high. See the whole 2009 chart.
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Where it comes from
From cam sron to Camrynn
The story of Camrynn
Clan Cameron of Lochaber gave the surname, and the surname gave a boy's given name that was firmly male in Scotland, England and the United States until the 1980s. The move to girls came with the general American traffic of surnames into girls' names, and it needed a spelling that marked the change, because Cameron itself was too well established as a boy's. Camryn did that work by dropping the e; Camrynn did it again by doubling the n, which English uses to close a syllable and which appears in Brynn, Lynn and Wrenn. The doubling is redundant to the ear and entirely functional to the eye. Camrynn's best year was 2009.
Meaning
crooked nose
From Scottish Gaelic cam sron, bent or crooked nose, a physical byname that became the name of a Highland clan. The second element sron is nose; cam is the same word as in Campbell, cam beul, crooked mouth. Both clan names began as blunt personal descriptions. The -ynn ending is a modern English addition with no meaning.
How the name formed
- cam sron
- Camshron
- Cameron
- Camryn
- Camrynn
Related forms: Camshron · Cameron · Camryn
Pronouncing Camrynn
KAM-rin
Two syllables, stress on the first, with the middle vowel of Cameron gone entirely. The doubled n does not lengthen anything.
Nicknames for Camrynn
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 girls named
- 200945 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3561reached in 2009
- Change vs 2024
- +12.5%18 in 2025, from 16
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.
Camrynn in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Camshron in Scottish Gaelic — related form
- Cameron in English — spelling variant
- Camryn in English — spelling variant
Camrynns among us
people named Camrynn are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 89,293 born in 2025 was named Camrynn
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Camrynn
- #6325
- Camrynn on the 2025 chart
- #263
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Camrynn went to 18 girls in 2025, but Camryn, Kamryn and Kamrynn are the same name said out loud. Together the 5 spellings went to 1,234, which makes it the 263rd most-given girls’ name of the year — 6,062 places above the chart.
and 1 rarer spelling.
About 1 girl in 1,302 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 89,293 for Camrynn 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 Miles test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Camrynn's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Miles climbed just as high around 1927, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Miles's path sketches the road Camrynn is walking now.
Camrynn 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
Camrynn beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Camrynn in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Unmistakably a girl's spelling of a name that is otherwise read as a boy's.
- Cam works for the whole of a life and in every register.
- A real clan name with a documented Gaelic meaning behind it.
- Cameron, Camryn, Kamryn and Camrynn all share one sound; this is the rarest of the four.
- The Gaelic meaning is crooked nose, which is not what most families expect.
- The doubled n is the kind of detail that gets silently corrected by other people.
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Frequently asked
- How many Camrynns are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Camrynn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Camrynn?
- Camrynn is one of 4 recorded spellings. Camryn is the more common one — 644 births in 2025 against 18 for Camrynn.
- How popular is the name Camrynn in 2025?
- Camrynn ranks #6325 among US girl names in 2025, with 18 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Camrynn?
- About 1 in every 89,293 US girls born in 2025 was named Camrynn — 18 in all.
- Will my child share the name Camrynn with classmates?
- Camrynn will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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