Camela
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries
/kamela/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Camela is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 38K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 65K
- USUnited States1 in 339K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 183 (measured from records)
- 1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Camela 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Camela | 33 |
| US United States | 980 | 1 in 339K | 975 | Camela | 183 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Camela | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 441K | listed | Camela | 41 |
| CA Canada | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 381K | — | Camela | 23 |
| GY Guyana | 20 | 1 in 38K | 20 | Camela | 3 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Camela is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, a (female) camel, a (camel) cow
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ss, to rest the head
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
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)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Camela?
- In Spanish /kamela/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Camela a male or female name?
- Camela is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Camela?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Camela in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled camela. After it come United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Camela most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Camela is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 38 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Camela?
- In the United States, the national register counted 980 people named Camela in 2020, about 1 in 339 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Camela?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/camelaThe 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, “Camela”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.