Entry № 1738 · Latin origin

Camila Camila — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kah-MEE-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Young attendant at a religious ceremony"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "young attendant at a religious ceremony".

Camila comes from the Latin camillus, meaning a young attendant who assisted Roman priests at religious ceremonies — specifically a noble-born child who helped with sacrifices and rites. The name is associated with Camilla, queen of the Volsci, a warrior maiden in Virgil's Aeneid who could run across a field of grain without bending the stalks.

Camila is the standard Spanish and Portuguese form, while Camilla is the English. The Spanish form has surged in the United States in the 2010s, in part through the singer Camila Cabello, who was born in Cuba and raised in Miami. Today Camila sits in the U.S.

Young attendant at a religious ceremony — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Camila
Transliteration
Camila
Pronunciation
/ kaˈmiː.la /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Camila stands.

Camila does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Camilas before her.

Real people
Camila Cabello
Cuban-American singer. Former member of Fifth Harmony, then a successful solo career.
born 1997
Queen Camilla
Queen consort of the United Kingdom.
born 1947
In fiction
Camilla
Volscian warrior maiden in Virgil's Aeneid.
1st c. BCE epic

Names connected to Camila.

The number behind Camila.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Camila reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.