Entry № 1739 · Latin origin

Camilla Camilla — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kah-MIL-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Attendant, young noble assistant"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "attendant, young noble assistant".

Camilla comes from the Latin camillus, meaning "young noble attendant at religious ceremonies." In Virgil's Aeneid, Camilla is the virgin warrior queen of the Volsci, raised in the wild.

Camilla is rising in the U.S. (currently top 700) and is the name of the Queen Consort of the UK (Camilla Parker Bowles, born 1947).

Virgin warrior queen. Virgil's heroine. The British Queen.

The name in its native script.

Camilla
Transliteration
Camilla
Pronunciation
/ kəˈmɪl.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Camilla stands.

Camilla 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.

Camillas before her.

Real people
Queen Camilla
Queen Consort of the UK.
born 1947
Camilla Belle
American actress.
born 1986
In fiction
Camilla
Virgin warrior of the Aeneid.
Virgil, 1st c. BCE

Names connected to Camilla.

The number behind Camilla.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Camilla reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.