Camden — #193 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Camden

The Social Security Administration has registered 57,434 babies named Camden between 1915 and 2024, spanning 110 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Camden currently holds the #193 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2013, when 3,897 babies received it in a single year. Camden is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 3,771 additional births since 1963.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Camden performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 29,712 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Camden shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 3,862 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Camden in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Camden in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 57,434 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.