Camila

Where Camila comes from

Camila hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1914
    First appearance
    #3,618 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1994
    Camila Mendes born
    American actress
  3. 1997
    Camila Cabello born
    Cuban-Mexican-American singer
  4. 2020
    Peak, #11
    8,165 babies named Camila — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Camila Cabello · Cuban-Mexican-American singer, born 1997
  • Camila Mendes · American actress, born 1994
  • Camila Giorgi · Italian tennis player, born 1991
  • Camila Vallejo · Chilean politician, born 1988
  • Camila Morrone · American actress, born 1997

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.