Kamille
Feminine · “attendant at a sacrifice”
Kamille is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 5,661 girls against 5 boys since 1880.
Kamille is Camille with a K, and the Roman word behind it named a specific job — a freeborn child who assisted a priest at sacrifices.
How old is the name Kamille?
Kamille first appears in US birth records in 1958 — 67 years ago. The typical Kamille alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 5,600 people named Kamille are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kamille most popular?
Kamille peaked in 2011, reaching #986 nationally. Today it ranks #1692, 706 places below that high. See the whole 2011 chart.
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Where it comes from
From camilla to Kamille
The story of Kamille
Virgil's Camilla is a huntress raised in the wild who dies fighting Aeneas's allies. Camille is the French form and is used for both sexes there. Danish and Norwegian use Kamille, which is also their word for the chamomile flower. It appears in the American registers and is in current use.
Meaning
attendant at a sacrifice
From the Latin camillus and its feminine camilla, a freeborn child serving at religious rites — documented in Roman religious vocabulary and probably Etruscan in origin. Virgil gave the name to a warrior maiden in the Aeneid, which is how it became a personal name.
How the name formed
- camilla
- Camille
- Kamille
Related forms: Camille · Kamille · Camilla
Pronouncing Kamille
kah-MEEL
Two syllables, stress on the second. Danish Kamille has three, kah-MIL-eh.
Nicknames for Kamille
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
- 1958
- Most girls named
- 2011259 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #986reached in 2011
- Change vs 2024
- −11.7%121 in 2025, from 137
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.
Kamille in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Camille in French — spelling variant
- Kamille in Danish — same name
- Camilla in Italian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Georgia, California.
Kamilles among us
people named Kamille are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 13,283 born in 2025 was named Kamille
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kamille
- #1692
- Kamille on the 2025 chart
- #232
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kamille went to 121 girls in 2025, but Camille and Camile are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 1,433, which makes it the 232nd most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,460 places above the chart.
and 1 rarer spelling.
About 1 girl in 1,122 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 13,283 for Kamille 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 Grecia test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kamille's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Grecia climbed just as high around 1988, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Grecia's path sketches the road Kamille is walking now.
Kamille 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 Kamille is headed
Kamille should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High 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.
Kamille beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kamille in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The altar-attendant meaning is unusually specific and genuinely interesting.
- A memorable warrior of the Aeneid carries the parent form.
- The end stress gives it a strong rhythm against a front-stressed surname.
- Camille is the standard spelling and is unisex in French.
- In Danish the same spelling names the chamomile flower.
- It will be respelled by other people constantly.
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Feminine · #1692 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Kamilles are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 5,600 people named Kamille are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kamille?
- Kamille is one of 3 recorded spellings. Camille is the more common one — 1,299 births in 2025 against 121 for Kamille.
- How popular is the name Kamille in 2025?
- Kamille ranks #1692 among US girl names in 2025, with 121 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kamille?
- About 1 in every 13,283 US girls born in 2025 was named Kamille — 121 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kamille with classmates?
- Kamille will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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