Camisha
Feminine
Chemise, camisole and the Spanish camisa are all one Latin word. It meant a shirt worn next to the skin, it traveled into every Romance language, and English borrowed it twice — once in the Middle Ages and once in the eighteenth century — ending up with two words for the same garment at two different levels of formality.
How old is the name Camisha?
Camisha first appears in US birth records in 1971 — 54 years ago. The typical Camisha alive today was born around 1987, making them about 38 years old. About 1,000 people named Camisha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Camisha most popular?
Camisha peaked in 1972, reaching #815 nationally. See the whole 1972 chart.
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Where it comes from
From a Germanic or Celtic word borrowed into late Latin to Camisha
The story of Camisha
The Latin word is itself a borrowing — probably Germanic, possibly Celtic, taken into late Latin for a garment the Romans had not previously worn. From there it went everywhere: camisa in Spanish, camicia in Italian, chemise in French. English took chemise from French for a woman's undergarment and camisole from French again for a slightly different one, and both are still in use for things that are not quite the same and not quite different. One word, two borrowings, five hundred years apart, and a shop can sell you both.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The name is built from a productive American front element and an ending that was attaching itself to anything in the 1970s, and neither carries a meaning. The resemblance to the Latin word for a shirt is a coincidence worth mentioning only because it is the sort of thing that gets offered as an etymology by people who have looked the letters up somewhere.
How the name formed
- a Germanic or Celtic word borrowed into late Latin
- camisa camicia and chemise across the Romance languages
- English borrows it twice at different periods
- an American front element and ending combine independently
- Camisha appears in the record in the early 1970s
Related forms: Kamisha · Camisa
Pronouncing Camisha
kuh-MEE-shuh
Three syllables with the weight in the middle. The spelling matches the sound throughout.
Nicknames for Camisha
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
- 1971
- Most girls named
- 1972165 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #815reached in 1972
- Change vs 2004
- −16.7%5 in 2014, from 6
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.
Camisha in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Kamisha in English — spelling variant
- Camisa in Spanish — related form
Camishas among us
people named Camisha are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Camisha sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Cami and Misha are both available and pull in different directions.
- It is read correctly at sight by anybody.
- The rhythm is the three-beat one English handles most comfortably.
- There is no meaning to give her and no origin outside the pattern.
- Kamisha is also in the record and the first letter will be corrected.
- It is closely dated to the 1970s and 1980s.
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- How many Camishas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Camisha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Camisha in 2025?
- Camisha is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Camisha will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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