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Camryn

Gender
Girl
Say it
KAM-rin
Origin
Scottish
US rank, 2025
#476 for girls

Camryn is a girls' name of Scottish origin, meaning “crooked nose”. In 2025 it ranked 476th for girls in the US (644 babies).

What does Camryn mean?

Scottish: feminine spelling of Cameron

“crooked nose”

A girls' spelling of Cameron, the Scottish clan name from Gaelic cam sròn, 'crooked nose'.

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Is Camryn a girl's or a boy's name?

Camryn is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 644 girls and 63 boys in the US.

How popular is Camryn in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2008, with 15 girls.

Half of all the girls named Camryn in the UK since 1996 were born between 2004 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2014, 82% of the babies named Camryn in the UK were girls.

1998Busiest: 15 in 20082023
Camryn in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20232#7,489
20224#4,870
20214#4,864
20203#5,734
20198#3,018
20186#3,702
20175#4,250
20164#4,980
20153#5,983
20149#2,809
20132#7,600
20128#3,148
20111#7,717
20104#4,931
200910#2,478
200815#1,840
20079#2,543
200612#1,987
200513#1,807
200410#2,064
20035#3,233
20027#2,436
20019#1,974
20008#2,097
19997#2,295
19985#2,855

How popular is Camryn in the US?

Rank in 2025
#476among girls
Babies in 2025
644about 1 in 2,500 girls
Five-year trend
Steadydown 16% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 644 girls in the US were named Camryn, making it the 476th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 407th. Its busiest year was 1999, with 2,048 girls. It first appears in the records in 1974. 63 boys were also named Camryn in 2025 (2,230th for boys).

Half of all the girls named Camryn in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 1,248 girls in the US were given Camryn or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #275, up from #476 for this spelling alone.

Girls were 56% of the babies named Camryn in the US in 1990, and 91% in 2025.

1974Busiest: 2,048 in 19992025
Camryn in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
2025644#476
2024688#456
2023618#496
2022704#445
2021810#386
2020769#407
2019774#399
2018770#400
2017756#421
2016818#408
2015825#396
2014813#401
2013806#385
2012915#348
20111,065#295
20101,172#282
20091,344#247
20081,415#244
20071,596#216
20061,581#216
20051,442#235
20041,514#224
2003998#310
20021,269#251
20011,596#202
20001,753#184
19992,048#158
1998782#367
1997240#850
199682#1,790
199561#2,184
199469#2,021
199342#2,820
199243#2,772
199129#3,627
199023#4,225
198922#4,242
198811#6,661
19875#11,320
19868#7,745
19855#10,672
19847#8,149
19835#10,272
19825#10,514
19815#10,409
19800–
19797#8,059
19780–
19770–
19760–
19750–
19745#8,773

Nicknames for Camryn

Names like Camryn

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Camryn

Names related to Camryn

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Camryn: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/camryn, updated 20 October 2026.