Kamrynn
Feminine · “Crooked nose”
Kamrynn is given to both — 942 girls and 40 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Kamrynn is Cameron feminised, and the process is worth naming: change the C to a K, change the -on to a -yn, and a Scottish surname becomes a girls' name. Underneath is a nickname about a crooked nose.
How old is the name Kamrynn?
Kamrynn first appears in US birth records in 1998 — 27 years ago. The typical Kamrynn is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 900 people named Kamrynn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kamrynn most popular?
Kamrynn peaked in 2014, reaching #3005 nationally. Today it ranks #5554, 2,549 places below that high. See the whole 2014 chart.
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Where it comes from
From cam sròn to Kamrynn
The story of Kamrynn
Clan Cameron held Lochaber and fought at Culloden, and the surname traveled with Scottish emigration. As a given name Cameron rose in America for boys from the 1970s and entered the top fifty. It then did what a large number of boys' surname-names do: it crossed to girls, and the crossing was marked by respelling. Kamryn, Camryn, Kamren and Kamrynn all appear from the 1990s, and the K and the -yn together signal the sex in a way the plain Cameron does not. Kamrynn's peak in 2014 sits at the height of that family's run.
Meaning
Crooked nose
From Scottish Gaelic cam sròn, crooked nose — a byname that became the name of a Highland clan. The reading is settled and is one of the bluntest etymologies attached to any popular modern name. The K and the -ynn of Kamrynn are American respellings that mark the name as feminine; neither carries meaning.
How the name formed
- cam sròn
- Cameron
- Kamryn
- Kamrynn
Related forms: Camshron · Cameron
Pronouncing Kamrynn
KAM-rin
Two syllables, stress on the first. Cameron has three in careful speech and two in ordinary American speech, which is what the shorter spelling records.
Nicknames for Kamrynn
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
- 1998
- Most girls named
- 201456 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3005reached in 2014
- Change vs 2024
- −33.3%22 in 2025, from 33
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.
Kamrynn in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Camshron in Scottish Gaelic — related form
- Cameron in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Michigan.
Kamrynns among us
people named Kamrynn are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 73,058 born in 2025 was named Kamrynn
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kamrynn
- #5554
- Kamrynn on the 2025 chart
- #263
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kamrynn went to 22 girls in 2025, but Camryn, Kamryn and Camrynn are the same name said out loud. Together the 5 spellings went to 1,234, which makes it the 263rd most-given girls’ name of the year — 5,291 places above the chart.
and 1 rarer spelling.
About 1 girl in 1,302 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 73,058 for Kamrynn 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 Faythe test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kamrynn's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Faythe climbed just as high around 1919, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Faythe's path sketches the road Kamrynn is walking now.
Kamrynn 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
Kamrynn beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kamrynn in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The Gaelic meaning is settled and memorable.
- Kam works as a short form for either sex.
- Everyone can say it after one hearing.
- Nobody will spell it correctly from hearing it.
- Kamryn, Camryn, Kamren and Kamrynn are four spellings of one sound.
- The meaning is a crooked nose, which a curious child will find.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kamrynns are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Kamrynn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kamrynn?
- Kamrynn is one of 4 recorded spellings. Camryn is the more common one — 644 births in 2025 against 22 for Kamrynn.
- How popular is the name Kamrynn in 2025?
- Kamrynn ranks #5554 among US girl names in 2025, with 22 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kamrynn?
- About 1 in every 73,058 US girls born in 2025 was named Kamrynn — 22 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kamrynn with classmates?
- Kamrynn will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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