Camille
Camille was given to 1,299 girls in 2025, #240 among girls’ names; 77,120 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 66,200 Americans named Camille and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 14 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Camille by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Camille mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Camille is “a unisex given name from French.” Its etymology gives the sense “Camilla” (Camille).
From French Camille (“Camilla”). Doublet of Camilla.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Camille?
#240 among girls’ names, 2025
Camille rose from #247 in 2015 to #240 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.73 to 0.81 per 1,000.
1,344 babies in 2012, the peak
Camille peaked in 2012, when 1,344 girls were given it, #237 among girls’ names. The 1,308 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 97% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,299 | #240 | 0.81 |
| 2024 | 1,305 | #239 | 0.81 |
| 2023 | 1,164 | #268 | 0.73 |
| 2022 | 1,295 | #237 | 0.79 |
| 2021 | 1,132 | #280 | 0.69 |
| 2020 | 1,168 | #265 | 0.72 |
| 2019 | 1,270 | #258 | 0.76 |
| 2018 | 1,282 | #253 | 0.75 |
| 2017 | 1,264 | #253 | 0.73 |
| 2016 | 1,308 | #244 | 0.74 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,309 | #247 | 0.73 |
| 2014 | 1,293 | #251 | 0.72 |
| 2013 | 1,326 | #243 | 0.76 |
| 2012 | 1,344 | #237 | 0.76 |
| 2011 | 1,318 | #241 | 0.75 |
| 2010 | 1,217 | #270 | 0.68 |
| 2009 | 1,155 | #288 | 0.63 |
| 2008 | 1,108 | #300 | 0.59 |
| 2007 | 1,118 | #305 | 0.58 |
| 2006 | 1,073 | #306 | 0.56 |
| 2005 | 1,139 | #290 | 0.62 |
| 2004 | 1,277 | #253 | 0.70 |
| 2003 | 1,275 | #256 | 0.70 |
| 2002 | 1,187 | #267 | 0.66 |
| 2001 | 1,226 | #259 | 0.68 |
| 2000 | 1,198 | #269 | 0.66 |
| 1999 | 1,151 | #273 | 0.65 |
| 1998 | 1,071 | #283 | 0.61 |
| 1997 | 1,005 | #286 | 0.58 |
| 1996 | 950 | #300 | 0.54 |
| 1995 | 998 | #277 | 0.57 |
| 1994 | 954 | #288 | 0.53 |
| 1993 | 1,013 | #273 | 0.56 |
| 1992 | 1,088 | #258 | 0.59 |
| 1991 | 1,055 | #262 | 0.56 |
| 1990 | 1,170 | #243 | 0.62 |
| 1989 | 876 | #297 | 0.48 |
| 1988 | 806 | #308 | 0.45 |
| 1987 | 706 | #342 | 0.41 |
| 1986 | 671 | #355 | 0.39 |
| 1985 | 727 | #327 | 0.42 |
| 1984 | 630 | #365 | 0.37 |
| 1983 | 625 | #362 | 0.37 |
| 1982 | 631 | #369 | 0.37 |
| 1981 | 634 | #369 | 0.38 |
| 1980 | 668 | #354 | 0.40 |
| 1979 | 611 | #370 | 0.38 |
| 1978 | 569 | #374 | 0.37 |
| 1977 | 537 | #391 | 0.35 |
| 1976 | 506 | #401 | 0.35 |
| 1975 | 459 | #430 | 0.31 |
| 1974 | 459 | #423 | 0.31 |
| 1973 | 567 | #371 | 0.39 |
| 1972 | 511 | #397 | 0.34 |
| 1971 | 631 | #373 | 0.38 |
| 1970 | 822 | #326 | 0.47 |
| 1969 | 784 | #323 | 0.46 |
| 1968 | 545 | #395 | 0.33 |
| 1967 | 502 | #418 | 0.30 |
| 1966 | 463 | #438 | 0.27 |
| 1965 | 450 | #450 | 0.25 |
| 1964 | 469 | #453 | 0.25 |
| 1963 | 487 | #439 | 0.25 |
| 1962 | 507 | #432 | 0.26 |
| 1961 | 540 | #421 | 0.27 |
| 1960 | 498 | #437 | 0.25 |
| 1959 | 544 | #403 | 0.27 |
| 1958 | 543 | #393 | 0.27 |
| 1957 | 501 | #415 | 0.25 |
| 1956 | 500 | #404 | 0.25 |
| 1955 | 505 | #391 | 0.26 |
| 1954 | 476 | #396 | 0.25 |
| 1953 | 482 | #385 | 0.26 |
| 1952 | 416 | #414 | 0.22 |
| 1951 | 437 | #392 | 0.24 |
| 1950 | 480 | #360 | 0.28 |
| 1949 | 501 | #347 | 0.29 |
| 1948 | 471 | #359 | 0.28 |
| 1947 | 514 | #353 | 0.29 |
| 1946 | 544 | #321 | 0.35 |
| 1945 | 373 | #361 | 0.29 |
| 1944 | 481 | #306 | 0.36 |
| 1943 | 546 | #298 | 0.39 |
| 1942 | 450 | #325 | 0.33 |
| 1941 | 349 | #353 | 0.29 |
| 1940 | 297 | #391 | 0.26 |
| 1939 | 336 | #349 | 0.31 |
| 1938 | 307 | #379 | 0.28 |
| 1937 | 285 | #384 | 0.27 |
| 1936 | 197 | #456 | 0.19 |
| 1935 | 168 | #486 | 0.16 |
| 1934 | 164 | #502 | 0.16 |
| 1933 | 151 | #516 | 0.15 |
| 1932 | 166 | #506 | 0.16 |
| 1931 | 162 | #511 | 0.15 |
| 1930 | 155 | #545 | 0.14 |
| 1929 | 146 | #567 | 0.13 |
| 1928 | 181 | #516 | 0.16 |
| 1927 | 138 | #604 | 0.12 |
| 1926 | 146 | #586 | 0.12 |
| 1925 | 150 | #589 | 0.12 |
| 1924 | 176 | #548 | 0.14 |
| 1923 | 175 | #543 | 0.15 |
| 1922 | 162 | #561 | 0.13 |
| 1921 | 153 | #585 | 0.12 |
| 1920 | 182 | #520 | 0.15 |
| 1919 | 153 | #556 | 0.14 |
| 1918 | 196 | #485 | 0.17 |
| 1917 | 168 | #512 | 0.16 |
| 1916 | 183 | #470 | 0.18 |
| 1915 | 165 | #479 | 0.17 |
| 1914 | 111 | #527 | 0.15 |
| 1913 | 110 | #484 | 0.18 |
| 1912 | 92 | #497 | 0.16 |
| 1911 | 73 | #483 | 0.17 |
| 1910 | 69 | #491 | 0.17 |
| 1909 | 67 | #457 | 0.19 |
| 1908 | 62 | #458 | 0.19 |
| 1907 | 67 | #434 | 0.21 |
| 1906 | 33 | #624 | 0.11 |
| 1905 | 34 | #601 | 0.12 |
| 1904 | 50 | #464 | 0.18 |
| 1903 | 42 | #492 | 0.16 |
| 1902 | 38 | #519 | 0.14 |
| 1901 | 33 | #533 | 0.14 |
| 1900 | 47 | #496 | 0.16 |
| 1899 | 37 | #481 | 0.16 |
| 1898 | 41 | #481 | 0.16 |
| 1897 | 26 | #596 | 0.11 |
| 1896 | 27 | #595 | 0.11 |
| 1895 | 33 | #515 | 0.14 |
| 1894 | 37 | #457 | 0.17 |
| 1893 | 29 | #513 | 0.14 |
| 1892 | 23 | #580 | 0.11 |
| 1891 | 23 | #543 | 0.12 |
| 1890 | 21 | #571 | 0.11 |
| 1889 | 20 | #571 | 0.11 |
| 1888 | 16 | #643 | 0.09 |
| 1887 | 8 | #870 | 0.05 |
| 1886 | 20 | #495 | 0.14 |
| 1885 | 17 | #525 | 0.13 |
| 1884 | 7 | #865 | 0.05 |
| 1883 | 11 | #587 | 0.10 |
| 1882 | 7 | #750 | 0.06 |
| 1881 | 12 | #491 | 0.13 |
| 1880 | 8 | #635 | 0.09 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Camille a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 77,120 Americans recorded as Camille, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 1,299 girls and 9 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Camille: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Camille, and how old are they?
66,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 77,120 Americans ever recorded as Camille. The median Camille alive today is 28 years old; half are between 14 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 62,246 people named Camille (61,343 women and girls, 903 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 61,131 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1,860 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 7,450 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 8,520 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 13,300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 18,700 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 16,400 |
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 Camille born?
The states with the most babies named Camille are California, Texas and Florida, with 32% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 188 | #169 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 135 | #257 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 81 | #232 | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 73 | #29 | 2.2× |
| New York | 70 | #243 | 1.5× |
| Georgia | 53 | #200 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 46 | #234 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 40 | #264 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 39 | #281 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 39 | #229 | 0.8× |
Where Camille is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Camille is most over-represented in Utah: since 1910 it was given 2.6 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 Camille 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 243,947 babies since 1880, Camille is the second most given (32% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,308 of their 9,023 babies (14%), again the second 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 Camille
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 Camille and names like it
- Compare Camille and CamilaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCamille peaked in 2012.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Camille since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Camille: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Camille.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Camille alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.