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Camila vs Camya

American parents have registered 123,976 Camilas since 1880, against 661 Camyas. Camila is still ahead, with 6,599 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Camila Camya

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 Camya had 20.

Side by side

  Camila Camya
Total US births 123,976661
Most in one year 8,17155
Babies in 2025 6,59913
Estimated living today 123,000660
Median age today 816
Peak year 20202006
Best rank 11th girls3,054th girls
Rank in 2025 19th7,885th
First recorded 19141999
Girls / boys 123,854 / 122661 / 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 Camyas alive today are over 16; half the Camilas are over 8. That is 8 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.

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