Camia
Feminine · “Tagalog "white ginger lily”
Camia is a flower name in one language and a built name in another. In Tagalog, kamia is the white ginger lily — a heavily scented garden flower — and it is used as a girl's name in the Philippines. In American English the same letters read as Cam plus -ia, which is one of the standard ways a short name is lengthened into a formal one.
How old is the name Camia?
Camia first appears in US birth records in 1970 — 55 years ago. The typical Camia alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 600 people named Camia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Camia most popular?
Camia peaked in 2019, reaching #4162 nationally. Today it ranks #6838, 2,676 places below that high. See the whole 2019 chart.
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Where it comes from
From kamia to Camia
The story of Camia
Filipino naming draws readily on flowers — Sampaguita, Rosal, Dahlia, Kamia — and spells them as the language does, with a k. The c spelling is the American adjustment, made because English readers expect a hard c before a. That single letter is the whole difference between a vocabulary name and a name that looks constructed, and it is why Camia sits in the American data alongside Amia, Camila and Mia rather than beside Sampaguita.
Meaningscholars disagree
Tagalog "white ginger lily"
Kamia is the ordinary Tagalog word for Hedychium coronarium and is a real Filipino given name. Whether a given American Camia comes from that word or from Cameron, Camille or Camden with an -ia ending cannot be determined from the spelling, and the 2019 peak in the US does not match Filipino immigration patterns closely enough to settle it either way.
How the name formed
- kamia
- Camia
Related forms: Kamia · Camila
Pronouncing Camia
KAH-mee-ah
Tagalog gives three clear syllables with the stress on the second: ka-MI-a. American speakers usually say KAY-mee-uh or KAM-ee-uh, moving the stress forward and changing the first vowel. All three are heard in the United States.
Nicknames for Camia
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1970
- Most girls named
- 201934 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #4162reached in 2019
- Change vs 2024
- +6.7%16 in 2025, from 15
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Camia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Kamia in Tagalog — same name
- Camila in Spanish — related form
Camias among us
people named Camia are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 100,454 born in 2025 was named Camia
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Camia
- #6838
- Camia on the 2025 chart
- #442
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Camia went to 16 girls in 2025, but Kamiyah, Kamiya and Kamya and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 17 spellings went to 637, which makes it the 442nd most-given girls’ name of the year — 6,396 places above the chart.
and 9 rarer spellings.
About 1 girl in 2,523 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 100,454 for Camia itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Lyndy test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Camia's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Lyndy climbed just as high around 1981, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Lyndy's path sketches the road Camia is walking now.
Camia sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Camia beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Camia in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It has a real botanical referent, which most modern -ia names do not.
- Cami and Mia are both ready-made, widely used short forms.
- The shape is completely familiar to English ears despite the name being rare.
- The first vowel has no settled value in American English — KAY, KAH and KAM are all in use.
- It will be taken as a shortening or misspelling of Camila constantly.
- The Filipino meaning is lost on almost every American listener.
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Frequently asked
- How many Camias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Camia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Camia?
- Camia is one of 8 recorded spellings. Kamiyah is the more common one — 257 births in 2025 against 16 for Camia.
- How popular is the name Camia in 2025?
- Camia ranks #6838 among US girl names in 2025, with 16 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Camia?
- About 1 in every 100,454 US girls born in 2025 was named Camia — 16 in all.
- Will my child share the name Camia with classmates?
- Camia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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