Camden
Camden was given to 1,722 boys in 2025, #205 among boys’ names; 63,101 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 62,300 Americans named Camden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 8 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Camden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Camden mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Camden is “a male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.” Its etymology gives the senses “enclosure” (campas) and “valley” (denu).
From Old English campas (“enclosure”) + denu (“valley”).
/ˈkæmdən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Camden?
#205 among boys’ names, 2025
Camden fell from #104 in 2015 to #205 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 2.0 to 1.0 per 1,000.
4,018 babies in 2013, the peak
Camden peaked in 2013, when 4,018 babies were given it (3,897 boys, #99 among boys’ names). The 1,873 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 47% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,722 | #205 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 1,865 | #193 | 1.1 |
| 2023 | 2,022 | #180 | 1.2 |
| 2022 | 2,014 | #188 | 1.2 |
| 2021 | 2,205 | #176 | 1.3 |
| 2020 | 2,311 | #167 | 1.3 |
| 2019 | 2,459 | #159 | 1.4 |
| 2018 | 2,562 | #152 | 1.4 |
| 2017 | 2,671 | #148 | 1.4 |
| 2016 | 3,344 | #124 | 1.8 |
Every recorded year (83)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 3,771 | #104 | 2.0 |
| 2014 | 3,895 | #101 | 2.0 |
| 2013 | 3,897 | #99 | 2.1 |
| 2012 | 2,600 | #156 | 1.4 |
| 2011 | 2,411 | #160 | 1.3 |
| 2010 | 2,105 | #180 | 1.1 |
| 2009 | 1,959 | #194 | 1.0 |
| 2008 | 1,936 | #203 | 0.95 |
| 2007 | 1,748 | #218 | 0.84 |
| 2006 | 1,621 | #222 | 0.79 |
| 2005 | 1,463 | #235 | 0.73 |
| 2004 | 1,446 | #233 | 0.73 |
| 2003 | 1,294 | #254 | 0.66 |
| 2002 | 1,039 | #287 | 0.54 |
| 2001 | 889 | #312 | 0.46 |
| 2000 | 731 | #362 | 0.37 |
| 1999 | 526 | #438 | 0.27 |
| 1998 | 396 | #523 | 0.21 |
| 1997 | 292 | #606 | 0.15 |
| 1996 | 237 | #683 | 0.13 |
| 1995 | 215 | #727 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 174 | #803 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 190 | #755 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 145 | #873 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 123 | #957 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 119 | #946 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 101 | #1,022 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 85 | #1,074 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 79 | #1,079 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 60 | #1,243 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 54 | #1,305 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 41 | #1,506 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 25 | #2,093 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 25 | #2,118 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 19 | #2,504 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 18 | #2,629 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 18 | #2,593 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 16 | #2,682 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,215 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,291 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,371 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 13 | #2,818 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,745 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,663 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,019 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #3,894 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,639 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 13 | #2,333 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,033 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 9 | #2,887 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,115 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 11 | #2,526 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,147 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,107 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,059 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,061 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,012 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,232 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,413 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,786 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #3,758 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,743 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,738 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 7 | #2,905 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,515 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,284 | under 0.01 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,436 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,440 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,321 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,425 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 6 | #3,882 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 6 | #3,786 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 5 | #3,900 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Camden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 63,101 Americans recorded as Camden, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 151 girls and 1,722 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Camden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Camden, and how old are they?
62,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 63,101 Americans ever recorded as Camden. The median Camden alive today is 12 years old; half are between 8 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 47,078 people named Camden (3,078 women and girls, 44,000 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 50,224 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 59 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 179 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,880 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 24,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 36,200 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Camden born?
The states with the most babies named Camden are Texas, California and Ohio, with 18% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 127 | #334 | 0.7× |
| California | 108 | #352 | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 98 | #151 | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 96 | #157 | 1.6× |
| Florida | 93 | #244 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 83 | #186 | 1.2× |
| Virginia | 77 | #118 | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 68 | #175 | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 67 | #156 | 1.3× |
| Maryland | 64 | #101 | 1.6× |
Where Camden is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Camden is most over-represented in New Hampshire: since 1915 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Camden with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 91,279 babies since 1880, Camden is the most given (69% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,873 of their 2,597 babies (72%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Camden
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Camden and names like it
- Compare Camden and KamdenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCamden peaked in 2013.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Camden since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Camden: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Camden.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Camden alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.