Camila
Camila was given to 6,591 girls in 2025, #19 among girls’ names; 123,976 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 123,000 Americans named Camila and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Camila by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Camila mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Camila is “a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Camilla or Camille”
/kaˈmila/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Camila?
#19 among girls’ names, 2025
Camila rose from #43 in 2015 to #19 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.0 to 4.1 per 1,000.
8,171 babies in 2020, the peak
Camila peaked in 2020, when 8,171 babies were given it (8,165 girls, #11 among girls’ names). The 6,599 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 81% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6,591 | #19 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 7,625 | #11 | 4.7 |
| 2023 | 7,581 | #13 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 8,001 | #12 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 8,036 | #12 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 8,165 | #11 | 5.1 |
| 2019 | 7,846 | #15 | 4.7 |
| 2018 | 7,508 | #18 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 6,776 | #23 | 3.9 |
| 2016 | 6,054 | #32 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (91)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5,275 | #43 | 3.0 |
| 2014 | 5,220 | #41 | 2.9 |
| 2013 | 5,147 | #39 | 2.9 |
| 2012 | 4,791 | #48 | 2.7 |
| 2011 | 4,972 | #48 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 4,307 | #61 | 2.4 |
| 2009 | 3,737 | #80 | 2.0 |
| 2008 | 3,847 | #83 | 2.0 |
| 2007 | 2,665 | #129 | 1.4 |
| 2006 | 1,962 | #180 | 1.0 |
| 2005 | 1,719 | #201 | 0.93 |
| 2004 | 1,154 | #288 | 0.63 |
| 2003 | 1,033 | #300 | 0.57 |
| 2002 | 636 | #455 | 0.35 |
| 2001 | 443 | #576 | 0.25 |
| 2000 | 370 | #660 | 0.20 |
| 1999 | 349 | #658 | 0.20 |
| 1998 | 261 | #815 | 0.15 |
| 1997 | 232 | #874 | 0.13 |
| 1996 | 152 | #1,186 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 122 | #1,344 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 133 | #1,274 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 111 | #1,446 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 96 | #1,600 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 72 | #1,931 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 74 | #1,890 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 60 | #2,071 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 54 | #2,127 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 49 | #2,200 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 35 | #2,734 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 42 | #2,365 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,344 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,829 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,909 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,366 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,011 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,255 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,279 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,564 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,555 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,524 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,327 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,387 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,413 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,166 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,522 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,634 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,808 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,789 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 11 | #3,986 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,531 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,381 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,644 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,350 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,572 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,225 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,637 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 10 | #3,958 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,172 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,717 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,638 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,648 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,054 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,792 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,243 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,403 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,425 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,898 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,293 | under 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,298 | under 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,815 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,372 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,944 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,158 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,799 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,445 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,015 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,550 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,386 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,176 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,694 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Camila a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Camila has been given almost only to girls: 122 boys in 91 years of records.
Girls and boys named Camila: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Camila, and how old are they?
123,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 123,976 Americans ever recorded as Camila. The median Camila alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 72,537 people named Camila (72,341 women and girls, 196 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 79,337 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 9 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 96 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 233 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,050 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 32,200 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 89,400 |
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 Camila born?
The states with the most babies named Camila are California, Texas and Florida, with 53% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,682 | #4 | 2.1× |
| Texas | 1,349 | #6 | 1.9× |
| Florida | 430 | #22 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 298 | #9 | 1.1× |
| New York | 262 | #45 | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 225 | #9 | 1.6× |
| North Carolina | 187 | #35 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 174 | #30 | 0.7× |
| Washington | 151 | #22 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 147 | #43 | 0.9× |
Where Camila is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Camila is most over-represented in California: since 1914 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Camila 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 265,586 babies since 1880, Camila is the most given (47% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6,599 of their 9,879 babies (67%), again the 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 Camila
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 Camila and names like it
- Compare Camila and CamilleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCamila peaked in 2020.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Camila since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Camila: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Camila.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Camila alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.