Kamrie
Feminine · “crooked nose”
One Highland surname has produced four separate American names. Cameron went to sons, Camryn to daughters, Kamren to both, and Kamrie to daughters again — each of them the same Gaelic phrase about a crooked nose, sorted by a spelling convention that everyone understands and nobody has written down. The -ie ending is the one that says daughter.
How old is the name Kamrie?
Kamrie first appears in US birth records in 1989 — 36 years ago. The typical Kamrie alive today was born around 2008, making them about 17 years old. About 600 people named Kamrie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kamrie most popular?
Kamrie peaked in 1996, reaching #4306 nationally. Today it ranks #13208, 8,902 places below that high. See the whole 1996 chart.
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Where it comes from
From cam sròn to Kamrie
The story of Kamrie
The Camerons were one of the great Highland clans, and their name reached America with Scottish emigration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Its life as a first name is entirely modern. What happened after it crossed to girls is a good illustration of how American naming sorts a unisex name: the base stays, and the ending does the work — -on and -en for sons, -yn and -ie for daughters. Kamrie appears in the record from the late 1980s and is the softest of the set.
Meaningscholars disagree
crooked nose
The Cameron surname comes from the Gaelic cam sròn, crooked nose. Whether this particular spelling descends from it or was built from the Kam- sound and an -ie ending cannot be determined; both were happening in the same decades, and a name this recent leaves very little evidence.
How the name formed
- cam sròn
- Cameron
- Camrie
- Kamrie
Pronouncing Kamrie
KAM-ree
Two syllables, stress on the first. It is said identically to Camry and Kamry, which are the other spellings of the same sound.
Nicknames for Kamrie
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
- 201627 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #4306reached in 1996
- Change vs 2024
- −33.3%6 in 2025, from 9
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.
Kamries among us
people named Kamrie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 267,878 born in 2025 was named Kamrie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kamrie
- #13208
- Kamrie on the 2025 chart
- #946
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kamrie went to 6 girls in 2025, but Camrie is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 14, which makes it the 946th most-given girls’ name of the year — 12,262 places above the chart.
- Camrie8
- Kamrie6
About 1 girl in 114,805 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 267,878 for Kamrie 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 Marcos test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kamrie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Marcos climbed just as high around 1926, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Marcos's path sketches the road Kamrie is walking now.
Kamrie 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
Kamrie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kamrie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Kam is available and works for a child of either sex.
- The Gaelic phrase behind it is documented and memorable.
- Six letters, two syllables, and readable on sight.
- Camry is also the name of a very widely sold car, and the association is unavoidable.
- Kamryn, Camrie and Kamri all compete, so the spelling has to be dictated.
- It is recent enough to date a woman's birth within a decade.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kamries 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 Kamrie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kamrie?
- Kamrie is one of 2 recorded spellings. Camrie is the more common one — 8 births in 2025 against 6 for Kamrie.
- How popular is the name Kamrie in 2025?
- Kamrie ranks #13208 among US girl names in 2025, with 6 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kamrie?
- About 1 in every 267,878 US girls born in 2025 was named Kamrie — 6 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kamrie with classmates?
- Kamrie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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