Kambry
Feminine · “Welsh Cymry”
The Welsh call themselves Cymry, which means fellow countrymen. The English call them Welsh, which means foreigners. Two names for one people, chosen from opposite sides of the same border, and both are still in daily use.
How old is the name Kambry?
Kambry first appears in US birth records in 1992 — 33 years ago. The typical Kambry is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Kambry are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kambry most popular?
Kambry peaked in 2014, reaching #3719 nationally. Today it ranks #9457, 5,738 places below that high. See the whole 2014 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Cymry to Kambry
The story of Kambry
Cymry comes from a Brittonic compound meaning people of the same region, and it was adopted as a self-description by the Britons of what is now Wales and the north-west of England as they were separated from each other by Anglo-Saxon expansion. Cymru is the country and Cymraeg the language. The English name comes from the other direction: Germanic walh meant a Roman or Celtic speaker, a foreigner, and it gave Welsh, Wales, Cornwall and Wallonia, as well as the surnames Walsh and Wallace. Cambria is a medieval Latinization of Cymru, used in academic and poetic writing and revived in the nineteenth century, which is where the geological Cambrian period gets its name, from the Welsh rocks in which the fossils were first studied.
Meaningscholars disagree
Welsh Cymry, fellow countrymen
Kambry is an American respelling of Cambry or Cambria, the Latinized form of Welsh Cymru, from Cymry, compatriots, built on a Brittonic word meaning fellow countrymen. It may equally be a coinage on the Kam- and -bry elements with no source. The peak is 2014.
How the name formed
- Cymry
- Cambria
- Kambry
Related forms: Cymru · Cambry · Cambria
Pronouncing Kambry
KAM-bree
Two syllables, stress on the first. Cambria, the Latin form, has three syllables. Welsh Cymru is KUM-ree with a different first vowel.
Nicknames for Kambry
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
- 1992
- Most girls named
- 201441 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3719reached in 2014
- Change vs 2024
- −33.3%10 in 2025, from 15
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.
Kambry in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Cymru in Welsh — related form
- Cambry in English — spelling variant
- Cambria in Latin — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas.
Kambrys among us
people named Kambry are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 160,727 born in 2025 was named Kambry
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kambry
- #9457
- Kambry on the 2025 chart
- #833
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kambry went to 10 girls in 2025, but Cambri, Kambri and Cambry 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 — 8,624 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 12,656 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 160,727 for Kambry 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 Lareina test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kambry's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Lareina climbed just as high around 1980, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Lareina's path sketches the road Kambry is walking now.
Kambry 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
Kambry beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kambry in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Kam and Bry are both usable short forms.
- Two syllables with a firm first-syllable stress.
- The pronunciation is obvious from the spelling.
- Cambria and Cambry are both closer to the source.
- The K spelling reads as a modern respelling.
- The 2014 peak makes it very recent.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kambrys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Kambry are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kambry?
- Kambry is one of 4 recorded spellings. Cambri is the more common one — 53 births in 2025 against 10 for Kambry.
- How popular is the name Kambry in 2025?
- Kambry ranks #9457 among US girl names in 2025, with 10 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kambry?
- About 1 in every 160,727 US girls born in 2025 was named Kambry — 10 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kambry with classmates?
- Kambry will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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