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Camryn

#477 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Crooked nose

Camryn has been given to 35,657 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #477 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 2,048 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 87% girls, 13% boys all-time.

Babies named Camryn, 2025

1 in 5,150

Camryn over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
01K2K3K18801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Camryn over time

In 2025, Camryn went to 91% girls and 9% boys.

19742025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Camryn: meaning, origin, and history

Crooked nose

English variant of a Scottish surname name

About Camryn

Camryn is a modern spelling of Cameron, a Scottish surname name meaning “crooked nose.” It usually has two syllables, KAM-run. Actor Camryn Manheim and Canadian hammer thrower Camryn Rogers give this form prominent connections with television and international sport.

Scottish roots and modern spelling

Cameron combines Gaelic cam, meaning “crooked,” with sròn, meaning “nose.” It began as a descriptive surname before developing a separate life as a given name.

Camryn preserves that surname's history while changing its written shape. The y replaces the fuller middle spelling of Cameron and presents the commonly compressed pronunciation more directly.

Related forms include Kamryn, Camron, and Kameron. Cam is an established familiar form. These are members of the same name family, rather than separate names that happen to sound alike.

The stress falls on the first syllable. Its final sound is an unstressed un, so the written y does not indicate a long eye sound.

Camryn Manheim and The Practice

Manheim won the 1998 Emmy for supporting actress in a drama series for The Practice. She played lawyer Ellenor Frutt in the programme's ensemble.

The role placed her within a television world built around criminal defense, professional decisions, and the pressures of working within the legal system. Her award connected Camryn with a major drama performance during the spelling's strongest period in American naming.

Her training included a fine-arts degree at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1984 and a graduate acting degree at New York University in 1987.

She also worked as a sign-language interpreter in hospitals. That skill later appeared in her screen work, including The Practice, giving her professional background a direct place in a character performance.

Camryn Rogers and the hammer throw

Rogers won the women's hammer throw at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, representing Canada. A year later she added the Olympic title in Paris.

In the Olympic final, her fifth-round throw reached 76.97 metres and moved her ahead of the field. The victory followed an earlier appearance in the Tokyo Olympic final and her development as a college athlete at the University of California.

Her Paris gold was Cal track and field's first Olympic gold since 1972 and its first individual gold since 1948. It also formed part of a Canadian sweep: Ethan Katzberg won the men's hammer competition.

Those milestones connect Camryn with a precise sporting achievement, from university competition to the highest international level.

American popularity

Camryn's largest United States girls' count and best ranking came in 1999, with 2,048 births at #158. In 2010, 1,172 girls received the name; in 2025, 644 did, ranking #477.

The spelling also appears in the boys' series. Its strongest boys' year was 2009, with 290 births at #783, compared with sixty-three in 2025. Both series show established use, with a considerably larger feminine record.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning and history draw on the references below. American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling; counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted. Existing Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA. Informal shortening suggestions are identified in the prose.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How popular is Camryn?

In 2025, Camryn ranked #477 among girls in the United States, with 644 recorded uses. The U.S. birth records first list this spelling for girls in 1974; its largest annual count was 2,048 in 1999. Rankings count each spelling separately. They describe national use, so local familiarity can differ. The popularity chart shows whether the name has remained common, returned after a quieter period, or risen recently.

How common is Camryn?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 5,150
644 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 2,500
0.04% of girls
Rank, 2025
#477
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
3,569 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Camryn sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 1002%
School of 5009%

Put another way: gather 3,569 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Camryn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Camryns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Camryn was born before 2008 — so the typical Camryn is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
46.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
83.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
30,959
People you could plausibly meet
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2000s — 46.9% of all recorded uses (14,508).

Is Camryn rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−21
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−70
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−81
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.78×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
31.4%
Peak was 1999 (2,048)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
6.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#158
1999

Spellings of Camryn

Camryn is not the most common spelling — Cameron is, with 12.0% against Camryn's 11.5%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Camryn is used — girls

Across 2016–2025, Camryn was most concentrated in South Dakota — about 1 in 1,075 girls, against 1 in 1,911 across all states with data. It was least common in Idaho (1 in 12,500).

893 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Dakota1 in 1,075
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 1,087
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 1,163
  4. 4Iowa1 in 1,235
  5. 5Maryland1 in 1,235
  6. 6Nebraska1 in 1,235
  7. 7Mississippi1 in 1,351
  8. 8Ohio1 in 1,351

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Camryn is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 24% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Where Camryn is used — boys

Across 2016–2025, Camryn was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 9,091 boys, against 1 in 17,696 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in 50,000).

211 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 9,091
  2. 2New York1 in 9,091
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 10,000
  4. 4South Carolina1 in 11,111
  5. 5Georgia1 in 12,500
  6. 6Illinois1 in 12,500
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 12,500
  8. 8Florida1 in 14,286

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Camryn around the world

Where Camryn ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2018
    #5,666
    in 2018
  • Scotland
    1999–2022
    #625
    in 2022
  • France
    2006–2008
    #3,037
    in 2008
  • Canada
    1997–2024
    #633
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1999–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Camryn

People whose public names include Camryn, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Camryn in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Camryn. Linked forms have their own page here.

Kamryn

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Camryn by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#477
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 70
Best rank ever
#158
1999
Peak year
1999
2,048 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
30,959
Count in 2025
644

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,234
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 693
Best rank ever
#783
2009
Peak year
2009
290 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,698
Count in 2025
63

Names similar to Camryn

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Camryn

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Camryn, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Camryn

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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