Kambria
Feminine · “The Latin name for Wales”
Kambria is the Latin name for Wales with a K on the front. Cambria is what medieval Latin writers called the country, latinizing the Welsh Cymru, and it survives in English in the geological term Cambrian — a whole period of earth history named after the rocks of north Wales.
How old is the name Kambria?
Kambria first appears in US birth records in 1969 — 56 years ago. The typical Kambria alive today was born around 2008, making them about 17 years old. About 1,600 people named Kambria are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kambria most popular?
Kambria peaked in 2008, reaching #2062 nationally. Today it ranks #7133, 5,071 places below that high. See the whole 2008 chart.
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Where it comes from
From combrogi to Kambria
The story of Kambria
Cambria appears in American naming as one of a small set of Latin place names used as women's names — Cambria, Iberia, Columbia, Virginia — and it has an additional American life as a place name in Pennsylvania and California. The K spelling is recent and belongs to the general fashion for hard-consonant respellings in the 2000s: Kambria, Kambree, Kamryn, Kensington. Kambria peaked in 2008, when that fashion was at its height, and the Welsh connection it carries is genuine even where nobody in the family knows it.
Meaning
The Latin name for Wales, from Welsh Cymru
Cymru derives from Brythonic combrogi, fellow countrymen — the Welsh name for themselves means, roughly, the people who belong together, in contrast to the English name Wales, which comes from a Germanic word for foreigner. Cambria is the medieval Latin form. The etymology is settled; only the K spelling is an American addition.
How the name formed
- combrogi
- Cymru
- Cambria
- Kambria
Related forms: Cymru · Cambria · Cambria
Pronouncing Kambria
KAM-bree-uh
Three syllables with the stress on the first. The Welsh Cymru is said KUM-ree, with a vowel English does not have, so the Latin form is already an approximation and the K spelling changes nothing further.
Nicknames for Kambria
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
- 1969
- Most girls named
- 200899 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2062reached in 2008
- Change vs 2024
- −16.7%15 in 2025, from 18
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.
Kambria in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Cymru in Welsh — related form
- Cambria in Latin — same name
- Cambria in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California.
Kambrias among us
people named Kambria are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 107,151 born in 2025 was named Kambria
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kambria
- #7133
- Kambria on the 2025 chart
- #849
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kambria went to 15 girls in 2025, but Cambria is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 111, which makes it the 849th most-given girls’ name of the year — 6,284 places above the chart.
- Cambria96
- Kambria15
About 1 girl in 14,480 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 107,151 for Kambria 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 Verlin test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kambria's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Verlin climbed just as high around 1924, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Verlin's path sketches the road Kambria is walking now.
Kambria 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
Kambria beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kambria in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It has a real and rather moving etymology — a country whose name means fellow countrymen.
- Kam and Bria are both established short forms.
- The Cambrian period gives it an unexpected scientific resonance.
- Cambria with a C is the historically correct spelling.
- It will be assumed to be a coinage rather than a place name.
- The 2008 peak dates the K spelling specifically.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kambrias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,600 people named Kambria are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kambria?
- Kambria is one of 2 recorded spellings. Cambria is the more common one — 96 births in 2025 against 15 for Kambria.
- How popular is the name Kambria in 2025?
- Kambria ranks #7133 among US girl names in 2025, with 15 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kambria?
- About 1 in every 107,151 US girls born in 2025 was named Kambria — 15 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kambria with classmates?
- Kambria will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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