# Camille (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/camille/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | French |
| Meaning | “camilla” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 77,120 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,398 / 75,722 (98% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,429, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From French Camille (“Camilla”). Doublet of Camilla.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,318 | 241 |
| 2012 | 1,344 | 237 |
| 2013 | 1,326 | 243 |
| 2014 | 1,293 | 251 |
| 2015 | 1,309 | 247 |
| 2016 | 1,308 | 244 |
| 2017 | 1,264 | 253 |
| 2018 | 1,282 | 253 |
| 2019 | 1,270 | 258 |
| 2020 | 1,168 | 265 |
| 2021 | 1,132 | 280 |
| 2022 | 1,295 | 237 |
| 2023 | 1,164 | 268 |
| 2024 | 1,305 | 239 |
| 2025 | 1,299 | 240 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 5 | 12,322 |
| 2007 | 5 | 12,654 |
| 2009 | 6 | 11,216 |
| 2010 | 5 | 12,539 |
| 2011 | 8 | 8,883 |
| 2013 | 9 | 8,219 |
| 2017 | 6 | 10,998 |
| 2018 | 6 | 11,002 |
| 2019 | 7 | 9,916 |
| 2020 | 5 | 12,356 |
| 2021 | 6 | 11,020 |
| 2022 | 8 | 9,125 |
| 2023 | 9 | 8,367 |
| 2024 | 5 | 12,647 |
| 2025 | 9 | 8,368 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 40 | 894 |
| 2012 | 42 | 887 |
| 2013 | 43 | 865 |
| 2014 | 47 | 814 |
| 2015 | 44 | 845 |
| 2016 | 52 | 757 |
| 2017 | 48 | 808 |
| 2018 | 53 | 745 |
| 2019 | 55 | 703 |
| 2020 | 62 | 617 |
| 2021 | 72 | 555 |
| 2022 | 56 | 671 |
| 2023 | 67 | 574 |
| 2024 | 59 | 654 |
| 2025 | 71 | 561 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 3 | 3,036 |
| 2013 | 8 | 2,403 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4,632 |
| 2015 | 4 | 3,908 |
| 2016 | 3 | 4,810 |
| 2017 | 4 | 3,996 |
| 2021 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,270 |
| 2025 | 5 | 3,684 |

## People named Camille

- Camille Pissarro, Danish-French painter (1830-1903)
- Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer, organist, conductor and pianist (1835–1921)
- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French landscape and portrait painter and printmaker in etching (1796-1875)
- Camille Flammarion, French astronomer and author (1842–1925)
- Camille Desmoulins, French journalist, politician and revolutionary (1760-1794)
- Camille Claudel, French sculptor (1864–1943)
- Camille Paglia, American feminist academic and critic (born 1947)
- Camille Jordan, French mathematician (1838-1922)
- Camille Muffat, French swimmer (1989–2015)
- Camille Chautemps, French politician (1885–1963)
- Camille Huysmans, Belgian former prime minister (1871-1968)
- Camille Abily, French association football player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.