Kamil
Kamil is given to both girls and boys: 8 girls and 32 boys were given it in 2025 (#11,395 among girls’ names and #3,554 among boys’, #6,559 among all names counting both); 2,643 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,590 Americans named Kamil and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 11 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kamil by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kamil mean?
Wiktionary, Polish section
Kamil is “a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Camille”
Learned borrowing from Latin Camillus.
/ˈka.mil/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Polish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kamil?
#3,554 among boys’ names, 2025
Kamil fell from #2,546 in 2015 to #3,554 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 25.6 to 18.7 per million.
104 babies in 2006, the peak
Kamil peaked in 2006, when 104 babies were given it (82 boys, #1,718 among boys’ names). The 40 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 38% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,395 | 32 | #3,554 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,768 | 47 | #2,770 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,259 | 49 | #2,674 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,776 | 39 | #3,131 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,832 | 45 | #2,792 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,226 | 53 | #2,450 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,286 | 49 | #2,641 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,240 | 45 | #2,728 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,244 | 51 | #2,510 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,413 | 47 | #2,643 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,579 | 49 | #2,546 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,858 | 56 | #2,328 |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,564 | 49 | #2,500 |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,998 | 65 | #2,098 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,971 | 60 | #2,186 |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,054 | 58 | #2,247 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,511 | 65 | #2,111 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,933 | 69 | #2,033 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,683 | 67 | #2,060 |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,019 | 82 | #1,718 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,700 | 65 | #1,951 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,604 | 71 | #1,770 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,771 | 62 | #1,893 |
| 2002 | 19 | #5,997 | 64 | #1,797 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,269 | 67 | #1,723 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,283 | 61 | #1,788 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,826 | 56 | #1,786 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,908 | 61 | #1,688 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,838 | 59 | #1,678 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,126 | 58 | #1,659 |
| 1995 | under 5 | 54 | #1,668 | |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,522 | 48 | #1,805 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,512 | 37 | #2,144 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,286 | 32 | #2,329 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,518 | 23 | #2,867 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,557 | 19 | #3,234 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,485 | 18 | #3,263 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,699 | 14 | #3,611 |
| 1987 | under 5 | 19 | #2,774 | |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,741 | 14 | #3,349 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,440 | 10 | #4,200 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,044 | 13 | #3,365 |
| 1983 | under 5 | 14 | #3,150 | |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,245 | 9 | #4,410 |
| 1981 | under 5 | 10 | #3,999 | |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,609 | 12 | #3,510 |
| 1979 | under 5 | 14 | #3,083 | |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,717 | 11 | #3,504 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,169 | 7 | #4,860 |
| 1976 | under 5 | 6 | #5,274 | |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,697 | 7 | #4,560 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Kamil a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,643 Americans recorded as Kamil, 21% are girls and 79% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kamil: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kamil, and how old are they?
2,590 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,643 Americans ever recorded as Kamil. The median Kamil alive today is 20 years old; half are between 11 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 4,048 people named Kamil (514 women and girls, 3,534 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,298 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 81 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 459 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,260 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 791 |
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 Kamil born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 6 | #1,661 | 1.9× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,768 | 0.1× |
Where Kamil is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kamil is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1975 it was given 4.0 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 boys’ 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 Kamil 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 6,816 babies since 1880, Kamil is the second most given (39% of them). In 2025 it was given to 40 of their 97 babies (41%), 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 Kamil
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 Kamil and names like it
- Compare Kamil and KamalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKamil peaked in 2006.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kamil since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Kamil: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Kamil.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kamil alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.