girls:
28.5k births since 1880
#844 (85th percentile)
boys:
6 births since 1918
#4580 (0th percentile)
overall:
28.5k births since 1880
#1507 (81st percentile)
The name Camilla is the #1,507 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 28,466 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 80.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 80.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #844 (85.2% percentile) for all time with 28,460 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,580 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 1918.
Camilla has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1918 for boys).
The name Camilla has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Camilla reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 73.6% percentile (ranked #249) with 661 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 667 births per million (ranked 72.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1992, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Camilla ranks #317 for girls (66.6% percentile) with 525 births per million, which is 78.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Camilla reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #530) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1918, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1918.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Camilla".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Camilla", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 27 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Camila" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Camila..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Camilla. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 68.6% confident that Camilla is pronounced as kuh-MIH-luh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kuh-MEE-luh, at 31.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like K AH0 M IH1 L AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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