Camden

Camden is an English place name meaning "winding valley," traceable to a Saxon settlement and immortalized by the historian William Camden in the sixteenth century. Americans know Camden variously as a neighborhood in London filled with markets and punk rock, a city in New Jersey where Walt Whitman spent his last years, and a harbor town on the coast of Maine. It began rising as a first name in the 2000s, currently at rank 193 and comfortably unisex. Two syllables, softer than its spelling suggests. Cam is an easy nickname. Camden reads cosmopolitan and outdoorsy at once, urbane but not self-important.