Kamila

What Kamila means

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

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #355 vs #2,006 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Kamila?

US: Steady: #328 in 2015, #355 now. England & Wales: Falling: down from #984 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2022, when 1,383 girls got the name (#213 that year). First in the US records in 1963.

How common

• About 1 in 1,889 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 18,092 baby girls in England and Wales 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 (2.14 per 1,000 girls), NV (1.96 per 1,000 girls), TX (1.28 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Kamila is #355 in the US and #2006 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 Kamila were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Camila6,591 US · 32 E&W
• Camilla847 US · 66 E&W
• Kamilla134 US · 5 E&W
• Kamilah94 US · 11 E&W
• Kamyla40 US
• Camilah12 US
• Kamylah11 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 Kamila

Girls

• Adelaide#289“noble + nature, character”^*
• Emery#74Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #74 vs #1,197 in 2025
• Stella#52“star”^*
• Lucy#24“light”^*
• 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
• Evelyn#8Same root as Eileen, possibly meaning “radiance, beauty”^*

For a brother

• Judah#178Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #178 vs #404 in 2025
• Asher#28Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #28 vs #150 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
• Atticus#281“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”^*
• Lucas#10Editor’s note Up from #16 in 2015 to #10 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 170 US boys in the 2025 records
• Karter#270Variant of Carter, meaning “son of Arthur”^*

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 Kamila’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.