Kambri
Feminine · “Wales”
Kambri is a respelling of Cambry, which comes from Cambria — the Latin name for Wales, taken from what the Welsh call themselves.
How old is the name Kambri?
Kambri first appears in US birth records in 1989 — 36 years ago. The typical Kambri is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,100 people named Kambri are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kambri most popular?
Kambri peaked in 2017, reaching #2357 nationally. Today it ranks #3975, 1,618 places below that high. See the whole 2017 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Kambri
Ours, offered as ours. This is one of the better facts in European naming. What the Welsh call themselves, Cymry, means fellow-countrymen — people of the same region. What the English call them, Wales, is from a Germanic word for foreigners or Romanised outsiders. The same people, two names, taken from opposite ends of the relationship. Cambria is the Latin of the first, and the geological Cambrian period is named for it because the rocks were first studied in Wales.
Meaningscholars disagree
Wales; countrymen
Cambria is a Latinization of Welsh Cymru, from a Brittonic word meaning fellow-countrymen; the Welsh name for themselves means compatriots, while the English name Wales comes from a Germanic word for foreigners. The two names take opposite views.
Pronouncing Kambri
KAM-bree
Two syllables, first stressed. There is little variation.
Nicknames for Kambri
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
- 1989
- Most girls named
- 201777 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2357reached in 2017
- Change vs 2024
- +24.1%36 in 2025, from 29
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.
Kambri in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Cymru in Welsh — related form
- Cambry in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana.
Kambris among us
people named Kambri are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 44,646 born in 2025 was named Kambri
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kambri
- #3975
- Kambri on the 2025 chart
- #833
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kambri went to 36 girls in 2025, but Cambri, Cambry and Kambry are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 127, which makes it the 833rd most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,142 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 12,656 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 44,646 for Kambri 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 Kerra test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kambri's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Kerra climbed just as high around 1975, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Kerra's path sketches the road Kambri is walking now.
Kambri 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 Kambri is headed
Kambri is easing off slowly — about 22% 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.
Kambri beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kambri in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A genuinely interesting fact about two nations' names sits behind it.
- Kam and Bri are both plain short forms in current use.
- Six letters and two syllables, quick to write.
- Kambri, Cambry and Cambrie are all in use and none is dominant.
- It is close to Kimberly and Camryn in an American ear.
- The Welsh connection is invisible in the modern spelling.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kambris are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Kambri are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kambri?
- Kambri is one of 4 recorded spellings. Cambri is the more common one — 53 births in 2025 against 36 for Kambri.
- How popular is the name Kambri in 2025?
- Kambri ranks #3975 among US girl names in 2025, with 36 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kambri?
- About 1 in every 44,646 US girls born in 2025 was named Kambri — 36 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kambri with classmates?
- Kambri will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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