Girl · Latin
Camila
Say it: kah-MEE-lah
Meaning
From Latin Camilla, the warrior maiden of the 'Aeneid'; the root is uncertain, sometimes linked to camillus 'youth serving at sacrifices'.
Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.
A leading girls' name in Spanish America from the 1990s.
Its wave through time
Rising now
In the United States
- 85,976 babies given this name since 1914
- At its height in 2020, about 1 in 197 girls
- 8,102 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
MexicanCentral AmericanAndeanArgentineCaribbeanSpanishBrazilian
The family of the name
Other spellings: Camilla
| Portuguese | Camila |
|---|---|
| Italian | Camilla |
Famous bearers
- Camila O'Gorman, Argentine woman executed in 1848
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Where this comes from
- Roman literature and history (Livy, Cicero, Tacitus and others)
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.