girls:
73.1k births since 1880
#459 (92nd percentile)
boys:
1.4k births since 1882
#3246 (29th percentile)
overall:
74.5k births since 1880
#836 (89th percentile)
The name Camille is the #836 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 74,485 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 89.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #459 (92.0% percentile) for all time with 73,101 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,246 (29.2% percentile) for all time with 1,384 births since 1882.
Camille has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1882 for boys).
The name Camille has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.1% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Camille reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 76.3% percentile (ranked #228) with 721 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 721 births per million (ranked 76.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Camille ranks #254 for girls (73.3% percentile) with 662 births per million, which is 91.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Camille reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 7.0% percentile (ranked #468) with 45 births per million. The name was most common in 1911, with 50 births per million (ranked 2.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Camille ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 9.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Camille".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Camille. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 81.0% confident that Camille is pronounced as kuh-MEEL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kuh-MIHL, at 19.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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