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Camila vs Camiya

American parents have registered 123,976 Camilas since 1880, against 628 Camiyas. Camila is still ahead, with 6,599 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Camila against Camiya, 1880 to 2025 0 2.5k 5k 7.5k 10k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Camila Camiya

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

Camila has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1914 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2001, when Camila had 443 and Camiya had 11.

Side by side

  Camila Camiya
Total US births 123,976628
Most in one year 8,17139
Babies in 2025 6,59910
Estimated living today 123,000620
Median age today 813
Peak year 20202010
Best rank 11th girls3,889th girls
Rank in 2025 19th9,457th
First recorded 19141998
Girls / boys 123,854 / 122628 / 0

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 Camiyas alive today are over 13; half the Camilas are over 8. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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