Camden

A boys’ name of Old English origin, meaning enclosed valley.

Babies a year
2,786
the US, 2017
Rarity
Common
among names in use
US popularity
#205
down from #193
UK popularity
#1406
19 babies

How Camden has moved

US popularity rank, 2015–2025. Lower is more popular.
#86#155#223201520202025#205

View as table
YearUS rank
2015#104
2016#124
2017#148
2018#152
2019#159
2020#166
2021#175
2022#187
2023#181
2024#193
2025#205

Camden by the numbers

In 2025, 19 babies in England and Wales were named Camden. In the US, 2,786 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given far more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its American peak was 3,895 babies in 2013, making it a 2010s name.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Camden. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Camrencrooked river; modern spelling variant of Cameron168 in the US (2017)
  • Cardenfrom the garden; a place name27 in the US (2017)
  • Caden1,715 in the US (2017)
  • Cayden1,565 in the US (2017)
  • Caiden1,053 in the US (2017)
  • Camdyn350 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Camden

Names that are said the same way as Camden, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

Other names that mean a meadow or field

Like Camden, each of these has a meadow or field in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.

  • Rileyvaliant; rye clearing7,797 in the US (2017)
  • Braydenbroad valley; a modern respelling of Braden5,153 in the US (2017)
  • Bentleymeadow of bent grass3,945 in the US (2017)
  • Haydenvalley with hay3,623 in the US (2017)
  • Wesleywestern meadow3,607 in the US (2017)
  • Ryleerye clearing; a respelling of Ryley2,971 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Camden

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