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Camie vs Camilla

American parents have registered 30,282 Camillas since 1880, against 1,624 Camies. Camilla is still ahead, with 847 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Camie against Camilla, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Camie Camilla

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Camilla has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1980, when Camie had 46 and Camilla had 102.

Side by side

  Camie Camilla
Total US births 1,62430,282
Most in one year 501,224
Babies in 2025 6847
Estimated living today 1,50025,000
Median age today 4512
Peak year 19682019
Best rank 1,625th girls271st girls
Rank in 2025 13,208th361st
First recorded 19471880
Girls / boys 1,624 / 030,276 / 6

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Camies alive today are over 45; half the Camillas are over 12. That is 33 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Camie Camilla
France 301,230
Switzerland 17519
Belgium 57183

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Related comparisons

Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Camie and Camilla.