Camelia
Camelia was given to 40 girls in 2025, #3,728 among girls’ names; 2,942 Americans have been recorded with it since 1884 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,460 Americans named Camelia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 17 and 57.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Camelia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Camelia mean?
Wiktionary, Romanian section
Camelia is “a female given name”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Romanian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Camelia?
#3,728 among girls’ names, 2025
Camelia rose from #4,004 in 2015 to #3,728 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 20.7 to 24.9 per million.
71 babies in 1987, the peak
Camelia peaked in 1987, when 71 girls were given it, #1,702 among girls’ names. The 40 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,728 | 24.9 |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,409 | 28.4 |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,717 | 25.6 |
| 2022 | 53 | #3,081 | 32.3 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,174 | 20.7 |
| 2020 | 51 | #3,099 | 31.5 |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,510 | 26.2 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,867 | 22.3 |
| 2017 | 55 | #2,970 | 31.9 |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,009 | 20.9 |
Every recorded year (119)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 37 | #4,004 | 20.7 |
| 2014 | 46 | #3,441 | 25.8 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,679 | 13.1 |
| 2012 | 28 | #4,988 | 15.9 |
| 2011 | 22 | #5,976 | 12.5 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,011 | 12.4 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,145 | 12.0 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,167 | 14.8 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,710 | 16.1 |
| 2006 | 15 | #7,939 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,839 | 11.4 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,724 | 15.2 |
| 2003 | 35 | #3,884 | 19.2 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,791 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,580 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 31 | #3,994 | 17.1 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,317 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,655 | 13.0 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,851 | 12.1 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,610 | 12.5 |
| 1995 | 26 | #3,986 | 14.8 |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,798 | 15.7 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,407 | 12.7 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,099 | 13.6 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,351 | 12.3 |
| 1990 | 32 | #3,369 | 16.9 |
| 1989 | 29 | #3,482 | 15.7 |
| 1988 | 39 | #2,699 | 21.9 |
| 1987 | 71 | #1,702 | 40.8 |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,854 | 19.2 |
| 1985 | 31 | #2,948 | 18.0 |
| 1984 | 44 | #2,230 | 26.1 |
| 1983 | 28 | #2,988 | 16.8 |
| 1982 | 41 | #2,374 | 24.2 |
| 1981 | 40 | #2,413 | 24.0 |
| 1980 | 44 | #2,253 | 26.5 |
| 1979 | 37 | #2,483 | 23.0 |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,871 | 18.3 |
| 1977 | 57 | #1,776 | 37.2 |
| 1976 | 66 | #1,538 | 45.0 |
| 1975 | 47 | #1,914 | 32.2 |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,019 | 15.7 |
| 1973 | 24 | #2,835 | 16.5 |
| 1972 | 23 | #2,910 | 15.1 |
| 1971 | 27 | #2,668 | 16.2 |
| 1970 | 24 | #2,866 | 13.7 |
| 1969 | 27 | #2,526 | 16.0 |
| 1968 | 28 | #2,303 | 17.1 |
| 1967 | 31 | #2,121 | 18.8 |
| 1966 | 32 | #2,063 | 18.9 |
| 1965 | 34 | #2,001 | 19.3 |
| 1964 | 35 | #2,014 | 18.5 |
| 1963 | 25 | #2,428 | 13.0 |
| 1962 | 33 | #2,034 | 16.8 |
| 1961 | 35 | #1,957 | 17.3 |
| 1960 | 33 | #1,982 | 16.3 |
| 1959 | 41 | #1,721 | 20.3 |
| 1958 | 24 | #2,328 | 11.9 |
| 1957 | 24 | #2,283 | 11.7 |
| 1956 | 21 | #2,461 | 10.5 |
| 1955 | 26 | #2,113 | 13.3 |
| 1954 | 37 | #1,681 | 19.1 |
| 1953 | 19 | #2,435 | 10.1 |
| 1952 | 29 | #1,862 | 15.6 |
| 1951 | 24 | #2,024 | 13.3 |
| 1950 | 30 | #1,729 | 17.5 |
| 1949 | 23 | #2,017 | 13.4 |
| 1948 | 33 | #1,623 | 19.4 |
| 1947 | 26 | #1,902 | 14.7 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,754 | 8.3 |
| 1945 | 21 | #1,831 | 16.1 |
| 1944 | 22 | #1,813 | 16.6 |
| 1943 | 26 | #1,669 | 18.6 |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,431 | 10.4 |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,818 | 16.6 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,316 | 11.4 |
| 1939 | 15 | #2,133 | 13.7 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,962 | 8.2 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,330 | 12.2 |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,274 | 12.5 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,185 | 7.6 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,365 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,139 | 7.9 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,311 | 7.5 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,414 | 4.7 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,707 | 9.8 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,128 | 5.4 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,723 | 10.1 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,932 | 5.9 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,711 | 6.6 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,435 | 7.2 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,945 | 9.1 |
| 1922 | 10 | #3,183 | 8.3 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,548 | 4.9 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,083 | 4.2 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,505 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,549 | 6.9 |
| 1917 | 15 | #2,214 | 13.9 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,303 | 7.7 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,175 | 8.1 |
| 1914 | 12 | #2,027 | 15.8 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,875 | 9.6 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,992 | 17.3 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,556 | 24.0 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,824 | 18.9 |
| 1898 | 7 | #1,387 | 27.1 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,515 | 22.4 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,129 | 34.6 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,050 | 38.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Camelia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Camelia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 119 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Camelia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Camelia, and how old are they?
2,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 84% of the 2,942 Americans ever recorded as Camelia. The median Camelia alive today is 39 years old; half are between 17 and 57.
The 2020 Census counted 3,833 people named Camelia (3,819 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,302 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 82 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 416 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 514 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 519 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 385 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 542 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Camelia born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8 | #2,308 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 6 | #2,999 | 0.9× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Camelia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 164,794 babies since 1880, Camelia is the fourth most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 40 of their 7,615 babies (<1%), again the fourth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Camelia
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Camelia and names like it
- Compare Camelia and CamilaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sCamelia peaked in 1987.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Camelia since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Camelia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Camelia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.