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Camille vs Camillo

American parents have registered 77,120 Camilles since 1880, against 930 Camillos. Camille is still ahead, with 1,308 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Camille Camillo

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

Camille 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 1921, when Camille had 189 and Camillo had 26.

Side by side

  Camille Camillo
Total US births 77,120930
Most in one year 1,34426
Babies in 2025 1,30817
Estimated living today 67,000460
Median age today 2723
Peak year 20121921
Best rank 237th girls1,475th boys
Rank in 2025 240th5,399th
First recorded 18801912
Girls / boys 75,722 / 1,3980 / 930

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 Camilles alive today are over 27; half the Camillos are over 23. That is 4 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 Camille Camillo
France 292,69050
Switzerland 2,28082

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: Camille and Camillo.