Latin camillus, a young attendant in Roman religious rites — attendant at a ritual. Camilla is a warrior maiden in Virgil's Aeneid; the single-l spelling is the Spanish and Portuguese form.
Camila ranks 19th among American girls in 2025, with 6,599 born that year. Its best year was 2020, when 8,171 babies were given the name, ranking 11th. The typical living American called Camila is about 9 years old today. It is relatively most common in New Mexico, where it accounts for 0.53% of births.
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state name files, 2025 release, and the Office for National Statistics for England and Wales. Etymology researched and written by our editors. Living-population and median-age figures are our own estimates, described in the methodology.