Camella
Camella was last recorded in 2024, when 10 babies were given it; 1,199 Americans have been recorded with it between 1909 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Camella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Camella?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,680, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 1960, the peak
Camella peaked in 1960, when 23 girls were given it, #2,520 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10 | #9,680 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,471 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,341 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,686 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,688 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,213 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,840 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,106 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,733 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,084 | 7.8 |
Every recorded year (108)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 6 | #14,924 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,186 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,757 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,869 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,905 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,649 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,109 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,969 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,477 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,262 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,002 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,799 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,380 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,898 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,708 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,078 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,002 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,976 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,708 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,373 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,132 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,322 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,856 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,661 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,029 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 11 | #5,946 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,498 | 9.6 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,740 | 8.9 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,293 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,857 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,064 | 11.2 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,704 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,814 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,246 | 7.5 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,024 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,709 | 11.6 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,386 | 8.9 |
| 1972 | 15 | #3,916 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,570 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,734 | 9.2 |
| 1969 | 20 | #3,021 | 11.9 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,471 | 9.1 |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,224 | 9.7 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,278 | 8.9 |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,064 | 9.6 |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,122 | 9.0 |
| 1963 | 19 | #2,876 | 9.9 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,612 | 6.6 |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,334 | 7.4 |
| 1960 | 23 | #2,520 | 11.4 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,454 | 6.4 |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,390 | 6.5 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,721 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,346 | 6.5 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,595 | 5.6 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,008 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,504 | 5.8 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,578 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,588 | 8.9 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,449 | 5.8 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,861 | 7.6 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,621 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,545 | 9.0 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,705 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,424 | 6.1 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,638 | 9.0 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,716 | 8.6 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,785 | 5.2 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,486 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,985 | 7.9 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,333 | 4.6 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,212 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,858 | 5.6 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,752 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,292 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,190 | 7.7 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,498 | 4.7 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,259 | 7.5 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,322 | 12.5 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,402 | 12.1 |
| 1927 | 17 | #2,180 | 14.3 |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,268 | 13.5 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,297 | 13.1 |
| 1924 | 18 | #2,149 | 14.4 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,157 | 8.3 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,526 | 5.0 |
| 1921 | 11 | #2,964 | 8.9 |
| 1920 | 16 | #2,285 | 13.4 |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,274 | 13.3 |
| 1918 | 18 | #2,043 | 15.5 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,385 | 7.4 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,856 | 9.6 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,404 | 12.2 |
| 1914 | 15 | #1,750 | 19.7 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,573 | 11.2 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,404 | 12.5 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,232 | 14.3 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,993 | 17.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Camella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Camella has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 108 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Camella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Camella, and how old are they?
An estimated 819 Americans named Camella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (68% of everyone recorded); the median is 48 years old and half are between 22 and 64. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 893 people named Camella (893 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 821 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 243,545 babies since 1880, Camella is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 9,057 babies recorded by SSA was a Camella (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Camella and names like it
- Compare Camella and CamilaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sCamella peaked in 1960.
- Massachusetts’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Camella since 1910.
- The top names of 1960The year the most babies were named Camella.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Camella alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.