Camilo
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: (L Camillus, a Roman family name of Etruscan origin). Caminel see Chemin 108 Camoes Cano
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kamilo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Camilo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country, where it is the 21st most common given name.
- COColombia≈1 in 267(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 615
- UYUruguay≈1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 374 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 267 (inferred from the name graph)
≈180,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
(L Camillus, a Roman family name of Etruscan origin). Caminel see Chemin 108 Camoes Cano
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
How Camilo is read(measured from records)
Camilo is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish75%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Camilo in Spanish.
- Portuguese13%
(L Camillus, a Roman family name of Etruscan origin). Caminel see Chemin 108 Camoes Cano
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
(L Camillus, a Roman family name of Etruscan origin).
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
- English5.3%
Spanish/Italian form of Latin Camillus
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The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Camilo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #21 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 267 | 100 | Camilo | 247 |
| CL Chile | #216 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 615 | 196 | Camilo | 137 |
| PH Philippines | #889 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Camilo | 72 |
| AR Argentina | #463 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | 779 | Camilo | 104 |
| BR Brazil | #490 | 12,321 | 1 in 17K | 15K | Camilo | 168 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 7,381 | 1 in 2.3K | 7.4K | Camilo | 61 |
| UY Uruguay | #132 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Camilo | 69 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the co-datosgov-candidates register; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INEC — civil registry names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pío de Tristánb. 1773PEnot in their usual nameViceroy of Peru
- Camilo Castelo Brancob. 1825PT19th-century Portuguese writer (1825–1890)
- Camilo Pessanhab. 1867PTPortuguese poet (1867-1926)
- Camilo José Celab. 1916ESSpanish writer (1916–2002)
- Camilo Torresb. 1929COColombian theologian (1929-1966)
- Camilo Cienfuegosb. 1932CUCuban revolutionary fighter and guerilla (1932–1959)
- Juan Camilo Zúñigab. 1985COColombian footballer
- Camilo Vargasb. 1989COColombian association football player
- Camilob. 1994COColombian singer
- Cucho Hernándezb. 1999COnot in their usual nameColombian footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 80 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 15K | #1,694 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 12K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 12K | #1,477 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 7.4K | #231 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 779 | #182 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 487 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 487 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 259 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 196 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 121 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 100 | #41 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 92 | #1,477 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Camilo?
- A machine transcription gives /kamilo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Camilo mean, and where does it come from?
- (L Camillus, a Roman family name of Etruscan origin). Caminel see Chemin 108 Camoes Cano Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- Is Camilo a male or female name?
- Camilo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Camilo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 184 thousand people named Camilo in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled camilo.
- What are other forms of the name Camilo?
- In the etymology graph, Kamil and Camilito are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Camilo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 12,321 people named Camilo in 2022, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Camilo compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Camilo is the 21st most common given name of 106,067 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Camilo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/camiloThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Camilo” — the 21st most common given name in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.