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Camelia

#3,728 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Camelia has been given to 2,942 babies in the U.S. since 1884. In 2025 it ranked #3,728 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1987, with 71 recorded.

Babies named Camelia, 2025

1 in 82,900

Camelia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Camelia: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Camelia means

Camelia is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Camelia is used in Romanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,942 girls were recorded with the name Camelia between 1884 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 71 in 1987; its best national rank was #1,050 in 1884.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,099 in 2020 to #3,728 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,004 in 2015 to #3,728 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Camelia?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 82,900
40 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 40,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,728
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
57,449 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Camelia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 57,449 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Camelia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Camelias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Camelia was born before 1980 — so the typical Camelia is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
13.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
28.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,457
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 13.6% of all recorded uses (400).

Is Camelia rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−319
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−629
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+276
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.08×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
56.3%
Peak was 1987 (71)
Years since peak
38
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,050
1884

Spellings of Camelia

Camelia is not the most common spelling — Pamela is, with 45.6% against Camelia's 0.23%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Camelia is used

Across 1910–2025, Camelia was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 122,248 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 50,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Alabama1 in —
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Georgia1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Indiana1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Camelia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Camelia around the world

Where Camelia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2025
    #1,892
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2007–2025
    #483
    in 2025
  • France
    1900–2025
    #150
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #889
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1946–1998
    #710
    in 1998

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Camelia

People whose public names include Camelia, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Camelia in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Camelia. Linked forms have their own page here.

Kamelia

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Camelia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,728
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 629
Best rank ever
#1,050
1884
Peak year
1987
71 that year
First recorded
1884
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,942
Count in 2025
40

Names similar to Camelia

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Camelia

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Camelia, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Camelia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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