Camila

What Camila means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Camila yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #19 vs #1,051 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Camila?

US: Rising: up from #43 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #1783 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2020, when 8,165 girls got the name (#11 that year). First in the US records in 1914.

How common

• About 1 in 244 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 7,915 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 5,964 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NM (12.63 per 1,000 girls), CA (10.4 per 1,000 girls), NV (9.35 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Camila is #19 in the US and #1051 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9% of US babies named Camila were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Camilla847 US · 66 E&W
• Kamila851 US · 14 E&W
• Kamilla134 US · 5 E&W
• Kamilah94 US · 11 E&W
• Kamyla40 US
• Camilly15 US
• Camilah12 US
• Kamala10 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Camila

Girls

• Lilah#179Editor’s note Up from #314 in 2015 to #179 in 2025 in the US
• Lucy#24“light”^*
• Arabella#213Editor’s note Steady in the US: #194 in 2015 and #213 in 2025
• Harmony#276From the word “harmony”^*
• Liliana#78Form of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*
• Ruby#64Editor’s note Up from #83 in 2015 to #64 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 450 US girls in the 2025 records

For a brother

• Judah#178Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #178 vs #404 in 2025
• Hudson#17Editor’s note Up from #65 in 2015 to #17 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 200 US boys in the 2025 records
• Micah#90“who is like Yahweh”^*
• Josiah#54Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #54 vs #226 in 2025
• Atticus#281“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”^*
• Jude#155possibly “praised”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Camila’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.