In 2025, 847 US girls were named Camilla, making it the 361st most common girls’ name of the year, down 38 places from #323 in 2024. That is 109 fewer than the 956 girls named Camilla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #263, reached in 2020. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,224, in 2019. For comparison, it was #374 in 2015 and #689 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Camilla in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 6 babies with the name. In all, 30,282 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 8,840 babies named Camilla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 10,318 US girls were named Camilla; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 1,224. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,898 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Camilla ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #147 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Camila (123,976 babies since 1880), Camille (77,120 babies since 1880), Kamila (20,098 babies since 1880) and Kamilla (3,203 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Camillia, Kamillah and Kamella are summarised on this page.
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