Kamren is a respelling of Cameron, the Scottish clan name from the Gaelic cam sròn, "crooked nose", originally the nickname of an early chief. K-spellings such as Kameron and Kamron became popular in the United States in the 1990s and 2000s. Kamren stood at number 971 in 2000, peaked at number 927 in 2008 and has fallen out of the top 1,000 since, standing at number 2,698 in 2025 with 48 births.