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Camellia

#1,676 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Camellia has been given to 3,347 babies in the U.S. since 1921. In 2025 it ranked #1,676 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 138 recorded.

Babies named Camellia, 2025

1 in 27,000

Camellia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Camellia: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Camellia means

Camellia is a given name.

The naming story behind Camellia

Wikidata records Camellia as a given name. The entity identifier is Q104836658, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,347 girls were recorded with the name Camellia between 1921 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 138 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,386 in 1948.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,679 in 2020 to #1,676 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,655 in 2015 to #1,676 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.

How common is Camellia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 27,000
123 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 13,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,676
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
18,683 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Camellia 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 18,683 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Camellia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Camellias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Camellia was born before 1994 — so the typical Camellia is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
21.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
46.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,964
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Choose a decade

2020s — 21.5% of all recorded uses (719).

Is Camellia 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
−129
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+979
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.84×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
89.1%
Peak was 2024 (138)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,386
1948

Spellings of Camellia

Camellia is not the most common spelling — Amelia is, with 79.8% against Camellia's 0.95%.

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 Camellia is used

Across 2016–2025, Camellia was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 16,278 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

113 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 7,692
  2. 2California1 in 8,333
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 10,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 12,500
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 16,667
  6. 6Texas1 in 16,667
  7. 7New York1 in 20,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 25,000

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.

Camellia around the world

Where Camellia 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
    1996–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2017–2017
    #873
    in 2017
  • France
    1993–2025
    #7,041
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,399
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1985–1985
    #671
    in 1985

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.

Camellia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,676
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3
Best rank ever
#1,386
1948
Peak year
2024
138 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,347
Count in 2025
123

Names similar to Camellia

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

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Names with a curve like Camellia

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

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Sibling names for Camellia

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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