Kamden
Feminine · “the enclosed valley”
Kamden is given to both — 708 girls and 12,556 boys since 1880. See Kamden as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Kamden is Camden with a K, and Camden is a valley — an English surname from a place name meaning an enclosed or winding valley. It reached American boys' lists in the 2000s and the girls' list a few years later, peaking in 2019, which is the ordinary sequence for a surname name making the crossing.
How old is the name Kamden?
Kamden first appears in US birth records in 1993 — 32 years ago. The typical Kamden alive today was born around 2012, making them about 13 years old. About 700 people named Kamden are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kamden most popular?
Kamden peaked in 2019, reaching #3851 nationally. Today it ranks #5917, 2,066 places below that high. See the whole 2019 chart.
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Where it comes from
From denu to Kamden
The story of Kamden
William Camden, the Elizabethan antiquary whose Britannia was the first systematic survey of the British Isles, made the surname familiar; Camden, New Jersey, and Camden Town in London both carry it. As a given name it is American and recent: Camden entered the boys' top thousand in the 1990s and the top hundred in the 2010s, on the strength of the -den and -ton endings that dominated the period. Kamden with a K belongs to the respelling wave, and its girls' use follows the standard pattern by which a small share of a popular boys' surname name crosses over a few years after the peak.
Meaningscholars disagree
the enclosed valley
Camden in Gloucestershire, now Chipping Campden, is recorded in Domesday and is generally read as Old English campa denu — a valley with enclosures or camps — or as cumb denu, a combe valley. The second element, denu, 'valley', is certain; the first is not. The London borough of Camden Town is a later and separate thing, named in the 1790s for the first Earl Camden, whose title came from Camden Place in Kent.
How the name formed
- denu
- Camden
- Kamden
Related forms: Camden · Kamdyn
Pronouncing Kamden
KAM-dun
Two syllables, stress on the first, with the ending reduced to a schwa. Identical to Camden; the K changes nothing about the sound.
Nicknames for Kamden
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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
- 1993
- Most girls named
- 201938 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3851reached in 2019
- Change vs 2024
- 0.0%20 in 2025, from 20
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.
Kamden in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Camden in English — spelling variant
- Kamdyn in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California.
Kamdens among us
people named Kamden are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 80,363 born in 2025 was named Kamden
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kamden
- #5917
- Kamden on the 2025 chart
- #789
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kamden went to 20 girls in 2025, but Camden is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 171, which makes it the 789th most-given girls’ name of the year — 5,128 places above the chart.
- Camden151
- Kamden20
About 1 girl in 9,399 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 80,363 for Kamden 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 Lashayla test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kamden's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Lashayla climbed just as high around 1985, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Lashayla's path sketches the road Kamden is walking now.
Kamden 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
Kamden beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kamden in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Kam and Cam are both current short forms that work on either sex.
- The pronunciation is obvious from the spelling.
- The place-name element behind it is genuinely Old English.
- Camden, Kamden and Kamdyn all circulate and hers will be written as one of the others.
- It is far more common on boys, so forms will often assume male.
- The -den ending dates the name closely to the 2005-2025 window.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kamdens 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 Kamden are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kamden?
- Kamden is one of 2 recorded spellings. Camden is the more common one — 151 births in 2025 against 20 for Kamden.
- How popular is the name Kamden in 2025?
- Kamden ranks #5917 among US girl names in 2025, with 20 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kamden?
- About 1 in every 80,363 US girls born in 2025 was named Kamden — 20 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kamden with classmates?
- Kamden will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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