Fun Facts About the Name Cambri
- 968 babies named Cambri: U.S. records list 968 babies given the name Cambri from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Cambri Mean?
Cambri is a modern given name, usually treated as a short form of Cambria, the Latin name for Wales. Cambria is a Latinized form of Welsh Cymru, the Welsh word for Wales, which descends from an earlier Brythonic term meaning "fellow countrymen" or "compatriots" (built from a prefix meaning "with" and a root for "region, land"). The literal sense of that base word is therefore "compatriots," while the customary meaning attached to Cambria, and so to Cambri, is simply "Wales." The shortened name has no separate root of its own; whatever meaning it carries comes from Cambria.
Cambri Name History & Origins
Cambria is the Latinized form of Welsh Cymru, the Welsh name for Wales. It is unrelated to the English word Wales, which comes from a Germanic root for "foreigners"; Cambria instead preserves the country's own name for itself. Latin writers used Cambria for Wales, and English writers, especially poets, kept it alive as a poetic or learned name for the country, along with the adjective Cambrian, meaning "Welsh."
Cambria has also been used as a given name in the English-speaking world, most often for girls. Cambri is a shortened form of that given name and is used mainly in the United States. The same root appears in science as well: the Cambrian period of geology was named after Cambria because the rocks first used to define it were studied in Wales.
How Popular is the Name Cambri?
Cambri has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2016. Its best rank was #2,874 in 2016.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #3,074 | 53 | 0.0033% |
| 2024 | #3,171 | 50 | 0.0031% |
| 2023 | #3,993 | 37 | 0.0023% |
| 2022 | #4,051 | 36 | 0.0022% |
| 2021 | #3,074 | 53 | 0.0032% |
| 2020 | #3,693 | 40 | 0.0025% |
| 2019 | #3,461 | 45 | 0.0027% |
| 2018 | #3,408 | 46 | 0.0027% |
| 2017 | #3,153 | 51 | 0.0030% |
| 2016 | #2,874 | 59 | 0.0033% |
| 2015 | #4,084 | 36 | 0.0020% |
| 2014 | #3,117 | 53 | 0.0030% |
| 2013 | #3,478 | 45 | 0.0026% |
| 2012 | #3,651 | 43 | 0.0024% |
| 2011 | #3,362 | 48 | 0.0027% |
| 2010 | #5,269 | 26 | 0.0015% |
| 2009 | #4,207 | 36 | 0.0020% |
| 2008 | #5,314 | 27 | 0.0014% |
| 2007 | #5,262 | 27 | 0.0014% |
| 2006 | #8,816 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2005 | #6,882 | 17 | 0.0009% |
| 2004 | #6,277 | 19 | 0.0010% |
| 2003 | #8,614 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2002 | #9,619 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2001 | #9,493 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2000 | #9,285 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 1999 | #8,322 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1998 | #10,279 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1997 | #9,951 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1996 | #12,082 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1995 | #12,016 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1992 | #13,602 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1987 | #11,537 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1986 | #9,710 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1985 | #9,446 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1981 | #10,621 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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