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Kamille

#1,697 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kamille has been given to 5,666 babies in the U.S. since 1958. In 2025 it ranked #1,697 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 259 recorded.

Babies named Kamille, 2025

1 in 27,400

Kamille over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kamille: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kamille means

Kamille is a given name.

The naming story behind Kamille

Wikidata records Kamille as a female given name, unisex given name. The entity identifier is Q95950455, 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, 5,661 girls were recorded with the name Kamille between 1958 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 259 in 2011; its best national rank was #986 in 2011.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,172 in 2020 to #1,697 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,191 in 2015 to #1,697 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Kamille between 2020 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2020; its best national rank was #13,061 in 2020.

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 Kamille?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 27,400
121 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 13,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,697
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
18,992 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kamille 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 18,992 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kamille. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kamilles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kamille was born before 2011 — so the typical Kamille is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,661
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.6% of all recorded uses (2,128).

Is Kamille 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
−140
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−525
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−506
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.57×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.7%
Peak was 2011 (259)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#986
2011

Spellings of Kamille

Kamille is not the most common spelling — Camille is, with 46.6% against Kamille's 3.5%.

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 Kamille is used

Across 2016–2025, Kamille was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 1,818 girls, against 1 in 8,606 across all states with data. It was least common in Indiana (1 in 50,000).

255 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 1,818
  2. 2Alabama1 in 3,030
  3. 3Georgia1 in 3,333
  4. 4South Carolina1 in 4,167
  5. 5Virginia1 in 5,263
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 5,556
  7. 7Maryland1 in 6,250
  8. 8Mississippi1 in 6,667

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.

Kamille around the world

Where Kamille 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.

  • France
    1994–2025
    #5,424
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1986–1986
    #667
    in 1986

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

Notable people named Kamille

People whose public names include Kamille, 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.

Kamille in other languages

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

Camille

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

Kamille by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,697
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 525
Best rank ever
#986
2011
Peak year
2011
259 that year
First recorded
1958
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,661
Count in 2025
121

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#13,061
2020
Peak year
2020
5 that year
First recorded
2020
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kamille

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

KamiyahKamilahKameronKamillaKamariaKamariKamerynKamoraKambreeKambriaKamiyaMozelleNicolleJenelleKambrieKamylleKamdynKamaraKamrynnJonelleJazelleKamayaGizelleKamiah

Names with a curve like Kamille

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

CambriaJaelElaynaEllyLeenaLiannaNailahAnneliseAliahKaliaKyndallHonesty

Sibling names for Kamille

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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