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Camillia

Gender
Girl
Say it
kuh-MIL-ee-uh
Origin
Latin
US rank, 2025
#13,203 for girls

Camillia is a girls' name of Latin origin, meaning “young ceremonial attendant”. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).

What does Camillia mean?

Latin: variant of Camilla, perhaps influenced by the flower camellia

“young ceremonial attendant”

In Virgil's Aeneid, Camilla is a swift-footed warrior maiden of the Volsci.

Is Camillia a girl's or a boy's name?

Camillia is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Camillia in the US?

Rank in 2025
13,203rd among girls
Babies in 2025
6 about 1 in 270,000 girls
Five-year trend
Falling down 56% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Camillia, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,919th. Its busiest year was 1987, with 59 girls. It first appears in the records in 1932.

It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Camillia than any year since 1966.

Half of all the girls named Camillia in the US since 1880 were born between 1972 and 2002, the years shaded on the chart below.

1932Busiest: 59 in 19872025
Camillia in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20256#13,203
20249#10,266
202310#9,611
202221#5,790
202115#7,245
202016#6,919
201917#6,694
201824#5,311
201718#6,527
201615#7,599
201520#6,234
201417#6,985
201315#7,744
201218#6,868
201111#9,719
201015#7,877
200921#6,314
200812#9,472
200713#9,003
200613#8,711
200517#6,815
200417#6,763
200315#7,202
200217#6,386
200120#5,565
200018#5,932
199914#6,830
199811#8,011
199715#6,158
199622#4,578
199512#7,036
199416#5,707
199317#5,413
199228#3,767
199126#3,930
199025#3,998
198936#2,980
198841#2,592
198759#1,917
198625#3,457
198532#2,859
198427#3,143
198329#2,909
198232#2,830
198128#3,066
198031#2,866
197926#3,147
197817#4,079
197720#3,611
197627#2,791
197522#3,155
197418#3,558
197328#2,565
197215#3,894
197128#2,599
197020#3,208
196922#2,843
196813#3,788
196719#2,868
19665#6,563
19659#4,493
196417#3,107
196311#4,018
196211#4,010
19616#5,850
196013#3,511
195914#3,253
19588#4,519
19579#4,201
19568#4,466
19559#4,068
195410#3,717
19537#4,594
195210#3,551
19510–
19507#4,313
194914#2,725
194811#3,136
19477#4,343
194611#3,033
194510#2,915
194412#2,624
194313#2,557
19429#3,192
19417#3,557
19406#3,861
19390–
19380–
19375#4,253
19360–
19350–
19340–
19330–
19326#3,899

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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, “Camillia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/camillia, updated 20 October 2026.