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Camila vs Kamila

American parents have registered 123,976 Camilas since 1880, against 20,098 Kamilas. Camila is still ahead, with 6,599 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Camila Kamila

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

Of the 91 years in which either name was published, Camila for 89 years and Kamila for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Camila Kamila
Total US births 123,97620,098
Most in one year 8,1711,383
Babies in 2025 6,599851
Estimated living today 123,00020,000
Median age today 88
Peak year 20202022
Best rank 11th girls213th girls
Rank in 2025 19th355th
First recorded 19141963
Girls / boys 123,854 / 12220,098 / 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.

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 Camila Kamila
Poland 6325,917
France 2,9653,360
England and Wales 469648
Italy 395271
Belgium 325263
Switzerland 45886
Ireland 37112
Scotland 615

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