Meaning not yet researched.
Camellia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 123 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,387 in 1948.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,387 in 1948; #1,676 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Camellia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,676 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1948, at #1,387.
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Camellia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 123 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,387 in 1948 · most girls in one year: 138 (2024).
In 2025, 123 US girls were named Camellia, making it the 1,676th most common girls’ name of the year, down 129 places from #1,547 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 138 girls named Camellia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,387, reached in 1948. The most girls given the name in a single year was 138, in 2024. For comparison, it was #2,655 in 2015 and #1,604 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Camellia in 98 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1921 with 6 babies. In all, 3,347 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 719 babies named Camellia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,089 US girls were named Camellia; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 138. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,067 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Camellia ranked highest in Washington in 2025, at #945 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Camelia (2,942 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kamelia, Kamillia and Kamellia are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kamelia (435), Kamillia (73), Kamellia (48), Camillie (5), Camillya (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Camellia in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 6 | #945 | — |
| California | 22 | #1,156 | #1,944 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,498 | — |
| New York | 8 | #1,552 | — |
| Texas | 14 | #1,638 | #3,376 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,729 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 123 | #1,676 | — | — |
| 2024 | 138 | #1,547 | — | — |
| 2023 | 119 | #1,727 | — | — |
| 2022 | 99 | #1,976 | — | — |
| 2021 | 118 | #1,741 | — | — |
| 2020 | 122 | #1,679 | — | — |
| 2019 | 96 | #2,002 | — | — |
| 2018 | 103 | #1,926 | — | — |
| 2017 | 91 | #2,113 | — | — |
| 2016 | 80 | #2,348 | — | — |
| 2015 | 67 | #2,655 | — | — |
| 2014 | 68 | #2,589 | — | — |
| 2013 | 45 | #3,479 | — | — |
| 2012 | 53 | #3,138 | — | — |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,378 | — | — |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,007 | — | — |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,741 | — | — |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,606 | — | — |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,452 | — | — |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,407 | — | — |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,577 | — | — |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,910 | — | — |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,830 | — | — |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,447 | — | — |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,401 | — | — |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,176 | — | — |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,065 | — | — |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,659 | — | — |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,669 | — | — |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,209 | — | — |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,716 | — | — |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,545 | — | — |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,574 | — | — |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,788 | — | — |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,523 | — | — |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,257 | — | — |
| 1989 | 32 | #3,262 | — | — |
| 1988 | 30 | #3,234 | — | — |
| 1987 | 64 | #1,815 | — | — |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,903 | — | — |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,866 | — | — |
| 1984 | 29 | #2,998 | — | — |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,132 | — | — |
| 1982 | 32 | #2,839 | — | — |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,559 | — | — |
| 1980 | 28 | #3,076 | — | — |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,156 | — | — |
| 1978 | 27 | #2,946 | — | — |
| 1977 | 23 | #3,282 | — | — |
| 1976 | 28 | #2,737 | — | — |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,524 | — | — |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,765 | — | — |
| 1973 | 20 | #3,245 | — | — |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,189 | — | — |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,278 | — | — |
| 1970 | 28 | #2,586 | — | — |
| 1969 | 35 | #2,140 | — | — |
| 1968 | 30 | #2,209 | — | — |
| 1967 | 36 | #1,950 | — | — |
| 1966 | 32 | #2,065 | — | — |
| 1965 | 28 | #2,254 | — | — |
| 1964 | 30 | #2,203 | — | — |
| 1963 | 27 | #2,312 | — | — |
| 1962 | 29 | #2,216 | — | — |
| 1961 | 33 | #2,040 | — | — |
| 1960 | 21 | #2,654 | — | — |
| 1959 | 35 | #1,884 | — | — |
| 1958 | 37 | #1,793 | — | — |
| 1957 | 42 | #1,653 | — | — |
| 1956 | 35 | #1,800 | — | — |
| 1955 | 45 | #1,518 | — | — |
| 1954 | 34 | #1,773 | — | — |
| 1953 | 31 | #1,788 | — | — |
| 1952 | 36 | #1,615 | — | — |
| 1951 | 29 | #1,808 | — | — |
| 1950 | 34 | #1,604 | — | — |
| 1949 | 39 | #1,469 | — | — |
| 1948 | 44 | #1,387 | — | — |
| 1947 | 30 | #1,757 | — | — |
| 1946 | 29 | #1,652 | — | — |
| 1945 | 31 | #1,455 | — | — |
| 1944 | 30 | #1,490 | — | — |
| 1943 | 35 | #1,399 | — | — |
| 1942 | 21 | #1,868 | — | — |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,819 | — | — |
| 1940 | 17 | #1,972 | — | — |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,313 | — | — |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,349 | — | — |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,486 | — | — |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,274 | — | — |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,807 | — | — |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,193 | — | — |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,299 | — | — |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,702 | — | — |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,660 | — | — |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,816 | — | — |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,934 | — | — |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,551 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).