Camille
The girl's name Camille has been in the national records since 1880, with 77,120 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 240th. About 67,000 Camilles are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 27.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Camille boys named Camille
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 77,120
- Estimated living today
- 67,000
- Median age today
- 27
- Peak year
- 2012
- Best rank
- 237th
- Rank in 2025
- 240th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 75,722 / 1,398
How old the living Camilles are
born that year still alive today
Of the 77,120 babies given the name since 1880, about 67,000 are alive — 86 in every hundred. Roughly 23,000 of them are children and 7,800 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1998 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin French
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Camilles
- Camille Pissarro (1830–1903)Danish-French painter
- Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)French composer, organist, conductor and pianist
- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796–1875)French landscape and portrait painter and printmaker in etching
- Camille Flammarion (1842–1925)French astronomer and author
- Camille Desmoulins (1760–1794)French journalist, politician and revolutionary
- Camille Claudel (1864–1943)French sculptor
- Camille Jordan (1838–1922)French mathematician
- Camille Muffat (1989–2015)French swimmer
People named Camille with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Camille is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Camille is most concentrated in Utah (3.8×), Louisiana (2.4×), Idaho (2.4×), the District of Columbia (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2012
The most popular girls’ names the year Camille peaked:
Camille elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Camille | 209,870 | 3rd |
| France boys | Camille | 82,820 | 34th |
| Belgium girls | Camille | 11,153 | 10th |
| Switzerland girls | Camille | 2,074 | 54th |
| England and Wales girls | Camille | 1,392 | 555th |
| Belgium boys | Camille | 286 | 407th |
| Switzerland boys | Camille | 206 | 472nd |
| Ireland girls | Camille | 133 | 317th |
| Scotland girls | Camille | 109 | 442nd |
| England and Wales boys | Camille | 37 | 2,403rd |
| Poland girls | Camille | 6 birth registrations | 734th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Camille: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Camille | 348 | 0.028% | 189th |
| German boys | Switzerland | Camille | 53 | 0.004% | 633rd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Camille | 1,717 | 0.395% | 3rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Camille | 152 | 0.035% | 158th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Camille | 9 | 0.014% | 97th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Camille | 1 | 0.002% | 203rd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Camille is most concentrated in Jura, where 0.49% of children were given it – 72 of them.
Camille: rank by region
In 2025, Camille was given 5 times or more in 4 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Camille | 75 | 68 |
| Wallonia | Camille | 30 | 79 |
| Wallonia | Camille | 177 | 16 |
| Brussels | Camille | 41 | 18 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Camille appears in the lists for Province of Walloon Brabant (15th), Province of Namur (16th), Province of Liège (20th), Province of Luxembourg (21st), Brussels-Capital Region (41st), Province of Antwerp (44th), Province of Hainaut (56th), Province of Flemish Brabant (65th), Province of West Flanders (77th), Province of Limburg (94th), Province of Liège (117th) and Province of East Flanders (140th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Camille by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 6 | 339th |
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 584th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Camille among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Camille | 35 | 62 |
| Finland boys | Camille | — | 10 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Camille lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 273 women called Camille were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barcelona | Camille | 73 | 0.024 | 1,960 |
| Valencia/València | Camille | 32 | 0.023 | 1,915 |
| Balears, Illes | Camille | 13 | 0.021 | 2,417 |
| Madrid | Camille | 74 | 0.020 | 2,212 |
| Girona | Camille | 7 | 0.017 | 2,558 |
| Palmas, Las | Camille | 7 | 0.012 | 4,821 |
Listed in 10 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 42 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Camille against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.