Kambrie
Feminine
Kambrie is a made name, and the honest way to read it is as two decisions: a K where a C would be, and an -ie where a longer ending used to be. It sits in a family of recent American names — Kinsley, Kambree, Camryn — that were assembled rather than inherited.
How old is the name Kambrie?
Kambrie first appears in US birth records in 1986 — 39 years ago. The typical Kambrie is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,200 people named Kambrie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kambrie most popular?
Kambrie peaked in 2014, reaching #2290 nationally. Today it ranks #2719, 429 places below that high. See the whole 2014 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Kambrie
Our story of Kambrie is about the letter K, which has done more work in American naming than any other. It arrived as a way of making a familiar name your own — Kaitlyn for Caitlin, Kloe for Chloe, Kambrie for whatever Cambrie might have been — and it changes nothing you can hear while changing everything on the page. What is left underneath is a shape rather than a source: two syllables, a hard opening, an ending that softens the whole thing. If Cambria is somewhere back there, it is back there unrecorded. What is certain is the shape, and the shape is the reason the name exists.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Nothing is documented. The name is often connected to Cambria, the Latin name for Wales, which comes from the Welsh Cymru — itself from a word meaning 'fellow countrymen'. That connection is plausible on the letters and is not recorded anywhere: Kambrie appears in American records without any line back to Cambria, and the K spelling belongs to modern American naming rather than to Welsh or Latin. Claiming Wales for it would be tidier than it is true.
Pronouncing Kambrie
KAM-bree
Two syllables, stress on the first. There is no ambiguity in the sound; the whole difficulty of this name is on paper.
Nicknames for Kambrie
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
- 1986
- Most girls named
- 201481 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2290reached in 2014
- Change vs 2024
- +96.9%63 in 2025, from 32
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.
Kambrie in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Ohio, Louisiana.
Kambries among us
people named Kambrie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 25,512 born in 2025 was named Kambrie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kambrie
- #2719
- Kambrie on the 2025 chart
- #799
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kambrie went to 63 girls in 2025, but Cambrie is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 161, which makes it the 799th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,920 places above the chart.
- Cambrie98
- Kambrie63
About 1 girl in 9,983 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 25,512 for Kambrie 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 Danyale test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kambrie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Danyale climbed just as high around 1974, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Danyale's path sketches the road Kambrie is walking now.
Kambrie 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 Kambrie is headed
Kambrie is easing off slowly — about 21% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low 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.
Kambrie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kambrie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Two easy syllables that every English speaker says correctly on sight.
- Kam and Bree are both natural short forms and both are established names.
- Distinctive without being unpronounceable, which is the balance most made names miss.
- It has no documented origin, so any meaning attached to it has been supplied rather than found.
- Kambrie, Kambree, Cambrie and Cambry are all in use and none is standard.
- The K spelling will need saying every single time the name is written down.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kambries are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Kambrie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kambrie?
- Kambrie is one of 2 recorded spellings. Cambrie is the more common one — 98 births in 2025 against 63 for Kambrie.
- How popular is the name Kambrie in 2025?
- Kambrie ranks #2719 among US girl names in 2025, with 63 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kambrie?
- About 1 in every 25,512 US girls born in 2025 was named Kambrie — 63 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kambrie with classmates?
- Kambrie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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