Girl or boy · Latin
Camille
Say it: kah-MEE
Meaning
From the Roman family name Camillus, perhaps related to camillus, a youth serving at sacrifices; the deeper origin is unknown.
Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.
Long used for both boys and girls in France, and a top girls' name since the 1990s.
Its wave through time
Timeless: in steady use for over a century
In the United States
- 70,846 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 2019, about 1 in 1,300 girls
- 1,159 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
| Italian | Camilla |
|---|---|
| English | Camilla |
Famous bearers
- Camille Claudel, sculptor
- Camille Pissarro, painter
- Camille Saint-Saëns, composer
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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
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