Camilla
Top 1000
About Camilla
The Spanish Camila, pronounced ka-MEE-la, is the fastest rising version of this ancient Roman name, but recent royal Camilla may have helped promote the British brand. In Roman myth, Camilla was a swift-footed huntress so fast she could run over a field without bending a blade of grass.
Camilla has been in English-speaking use since the sixteenth century, and appeared in Virgil's Aeneid as a virgin queen. It was later popularized by an eponymous Fanny Burney novel, and in modern times Camilla Macaulay is the protagonist of Donna Tartt's The Secret History. Today, the name is connected to the former Camilla Parker Bowles, now the Queen Consort, wife of King Charles III.
The floral name Camellia has also begun to bloom.
Pronounced kuh-MIL-uh.
As of October 2026, Camilla ranked #361 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #263 in 2020, Nameberry popularity #487.
Editor: Pamela Redmond
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #363 | 893 | 499.9 |
| 2015 | #374 | 874 | 489.6 |
| 2016 | #342 | 976 | 550.8 |
| 2017 | #308 | 1,060 | 614 |
| 2018 | #303 | 1,099 | 646.1 |
| 2019 | #271 | 1,224 | 729.3 |
| 2020 | #263 | 1,169 | 723.1 |
| 2021 | #307 | 1,041 | 634.4 |
| 2022 | #314 | 1,018 | 620.7 |
| 2023 | #336 | 924 | 575.9 |
| 2024 | #324 | 951 | 587 |
| 2025 | #361 | 847 | 527 |
World rankings
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Camilla on lists
Famous Camillas
- Camilla Rosemary (Shand) Parker Bowles
Duchess of Cornwall, wife of Britain's Prince Charles
- Camilla Belle (Routh)
American actress
- (Hilary) Camilla Cavendish
Baroness Cavendish of Little Venice, British MP and journalist
- Camilla "Millie" Mackintosh
British makeup artist and TV personality of "Made In Chelsea"
- Camilla "Milly" Rosso
English actress; twin sister Rebecca "Becky" Rosso
- Camilla Luddington
English actress
- Camilla Dallerup
English,Danish ballroom dancer
- Camilla Hansson
Miss Sweden 2014
- Camilla Martin
Danish Olympic badminton player
- Camilla Herrem
Norwegian Olympic badminton player
- Camilla von Hollay
Hungarian silent film actress
- (Jacobine) Camilla Collett
Norwegian feminist writer
- Camilla Arfwedson
British actress
- Camilla Marie Beeput
English actress and singer
- Camilla Maria Henemark
Swedish singer
- Camilla Crociani
Princess of Bourbon,Two Sicilies, Duchess of Castro
- (Jean Edith) Camilla Läckberg
Swedish novelist
- Camilla Rossiter
daughter of actor Leonard Rossiter
- Camilla Cleese (b. 1984)
daughter of actor John Cleese
- Camilla Chan (b. 2016)
daughter of Canadian,Hong Kong actress Aimee Chan
Camilla in pop culture
- Camilla of the Volsci
daughter of King Metabus and Casmilla in Roman mythology, who helped King Turnus fight against Aeneas
- Camilla Macaulay
character in "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
- Camilla Tyrold
main character in "Camilla" by Fanny Burney
- Camilla Cara
character in 1994 film "Camilla"
- Camilla Busin
character in 1954 film "Camilla"
- "Camilla Dickinson
" novel by Madeleine L'Engle
- Camilla Valerius
character in video game "Skyrim"
- Camilla "Chummy" Fortescue
Cholmeley,Browne Noakes, character on TV's "Call the Midwife"
- Camilla Figg
character on TV's "Dexter"
- Camilla the Chicken
Muppet character
- Camilla "Cam" Lawson
character in Jacqueline Wilson's "Tracy Beaker" novel and TV series
- Camilla
character from the video game Fire Emblem: Fates.
- Camilla Parker
character from Adventures in Odyssey