Camilah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ka-MEE-la
- Origin
- Latin
- US rank, 2025
- #8,360 for girls
Camilah is a girls' name of Latin origin, meaning “young ceremonial attendant”. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).
What does Camilah mean?
Latin: spelling of Camila; Spanish and Portuguese form of Camilla
“young ceremonial attendant”
Spanish and Portuguese form of Camilla, the warrior maiden in Virgil's Aeneid.
Meaning borrowed from Camila.
Is Camilah a girl's or a boy's name?
Camilah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Camilah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,360among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12about 1 in 130,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 40% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Camilah, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,546th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 29 girls. It first appears in the records in 2007.
2025 had fewer girls named Camilah than any year since 2009.
Half of all the girls named Camilah in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 7,603 girls in the US were given Camilah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #18, up from #8,360 for this spelling alone.
Camilah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,360 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,962 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,747 |
| 2022 | 16 | #6,979 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,409 |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,546 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,161 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,450 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,043 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,283 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,004 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,711 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,252 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,800 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,610 |
| 2010 | 15 | #7,877 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,698 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,594 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,485 |
Nicknames for Camilah
Names like Camilah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hadassah Zaniyah Zaliyah Nusaybah Kaliyah Aaliyah Sariyah Naziyah Kamiyah Amoura Alaiyah Jaliyah
Other spellings of Camilah
Names related to Camilah
More Latin names
Oliver Olivia Leo Roman Aurora Emily Florence Mabel Luna Nora Rosie Emilia Max Nova Lucy Julian
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Camilah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/camilah, updated 20 October 2026.