Kamil
Masculine · “perfect”
Kamil is given to both — 2,092 boys and 551 girls since 1880. See Kamil as a girl nameSee other names given to both
A camillus, in Rome, was a boy who assisted at a sacrifice — freeborn, both parents living, carrying the box of implements for the priest. The word became a family name, the family name became Camillus and Camilla, and Camilla became Kamil in Poland. That is a long way from an altar boy.
How old is the name Kamil?
Kamil first appears in US birth records in 1975 — 50 years ago. The typical Kamil alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 2,100 people named Kamil are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kamil most popular?
Kamil peaked in 1996, reaching #1655 nationally. Today it ranks #3513, 1,858 places below that high. See the whole 1996 chart.
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Where it comes from
From camillus to Kamil
The story of Kamil
The Roman camillus is an unusually specific word: the boy had to be freeborn and have both parents living, and the role belonged to particular rites. The word was old even in Latin, borrowed from Etruscan, and by the classical period it survived mainly as a name. Camillus and Camilla went into the church calendar and out across Catholic Europe, and Polish took the masculine as Kamil, which is where most of the Slavic bearers come from. The Arabic name arrived in the United States by a completely different road, with families from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. The two have met on American paperwork and nowhere else.
Meaningscholars disagree
perfect, complete — or, in the Latin reading, an attendant at a sacrifice
Two entirely unrelated sources reach this spelling. Arabic kamil means complete or perfect, and is a common man's name from Morocco to Pakistan. Polish, Czech and Slovak Kamil is from Latin Camillus, an old Roman name from the word for a boy who served at sacrifices. A Kamil in America may be either, and the spelling does not say.
How the name formed
- camillus
- Camillus
- Kamil
Related forms: Kamil · Kamil · Kamil · Kamil · Camillo
Pronouncing Kamil
KAH-meel
Two syllables. Polish stresses the first, Arabic the second, kah-MEEL, and American speakers use both. The i is a long ee in every version; it is never the i of kill.
Nicknames for Kamil
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
- 1975
- Most boys named
- 200682 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1655reached in 1996
- Change vs 2024
- −31.9%32 in 2025, from 47
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.
Kamil in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Kamil in Polish — same name
- Kamil in Czech — same name
- Kamil in Arabic — same name
- Kamil in Turkish — same name
- Camillo in Italian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, Illinois, Florida.
Kamils among us
people named Kamil are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 53,377 born in 2025 was named Kamil
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kamil
- #3513
- Kamil on the 2025 chart
- #891
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kamil went to 32 boys in 2025, but Kaamil is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 37, which makes it the 891st most-given boys’ name of the year — 2,622 places above the chart.
- Kamil32
- Kaamil5
About 1 boy in 46,164 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 53,377 for Kamil 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 Salim test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kamil's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Salim climbed just as high around 1980, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Salim's path sketches the road Kamil is walking now.
Kamil 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
Where Kamil is headed
Kamil should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Kamil beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kamil in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Spelled identically in Polish, Czech, Turkish and Arabic, which very few names manage.
- Both of its sources are documented and neither is invented.
- Two syllables, five letters, and no sound that is hard in any of the languages that use it.
- The stress differs between its two communities, so it will be said two ways.
- Camille is its French relative and is a woman's name there, which causes confusion on forms.
- Most bearers are boys, but a real minority are girls, and the spelling gives no signal either way.
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Masculine · #3513 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Kamils are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,100 people named Kamil are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kamil?
- Kamil is the most-used spelling in US records — 32 of the 37 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Kaamil.
- How popular is the name Kamil in 2025?
- Kamil ranks #3513 among US boy names in 2025, with 32 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kamil?
- About 1 in every 53,377 US boys born in 2025 was named Kamil — 32 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kamil with classmates?
- Kamil will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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