Camille
given name · Latin script
Meaning: French from Latin Camillus/Camilla, a name of uncertain Etruscan origin
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Camille is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country, where it is the 45th most common given name.
- FRFrance≈1 in 379(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 1.3K
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 3K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 444 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 379 (inferred from the name graph)
≈180,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
French from Latin Camillus/Camilla, a name of uncertain Etruscan origin.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Camille 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #45 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 379 | 209K | Camille | 444 |
| CN China | — | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Camille | 27 |
| US United States | — | 62,246 | 1 in 5.3K | 61K | Camille | 435 |
| PH Philippines | #428 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Camille | 113 |
| BR Brazil | — | 12,284 | 1 in 17K | 12K | Camille | 119 |
| BE Belgium | #117 | ≈8,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 153 | Camille | 144 |
| CH Switzerland | #497 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 3K | 46 | Camille | 104 |
| GY Guyana | — | 339 | 1 in 2.2K | 339 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); FSO — Vornamen der Neugeborenen und Wohnbevölkerung; 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)
Camille is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
, 2 From Latin. See }Camilla in main dictionary.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In French, du nom latin Camillus, de camillus « enfant noble employé comme aide dans les sacrifices ».
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In French, Du latin Camillus/Camilla, « jeune acolyte »; prénom de saint(s), fêté selon les calendriers le 14 juillet ou le 26 mai.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Origine latine, de Camillus, « qui fait partie de la famille Camillus ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Du latin, prénom mixte antique; « qui fait partie des Camillus ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Camille Desmoulinsb. 1760FRFrench journalist, politician and revolutionary (1760-1794)
- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corotb. 1796FRFrench landscape and portrait painter and printmaker in etching (1796-1875)
- Camille Pissarrob. 1830FRDanish-French painter (1830-1903)
- Jules Ferryb. 1832FRnot in their usual nameFrench politician (1832-1893)
- Camille Saint-Saënsb. 1835FRFrench composer, organist, conductor and pianist (1835–1921)
- Camille Flammarionb. 1842FRFrench astronomer and author (1842–1925)
- Camille Claudelb. 1864FRFrench sculptor (1864–1943)
- Jean-Claude Van Dammeb. 1960BEnot in their usual nameBelgian actor and martial artist (born 1960)
- Brooke Shieldsb. 1965USnot in their usual nameU.S. model and actress
- Rudy Gestedeb. 1988FRnot in their usual nameBeninese-French footballer (born 1988)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 96 sources across 49 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 209K | #68 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 82K | #64 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 61K | #790 |
| 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 | #1,480 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 7.3K | #2,626 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 1.3K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 903 | #790 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 547 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 339 | #287 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2024 | 153 | #44 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 88 | #1,480 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- Is Camille a male or female name?
- Camille is a female 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.
- What does the name Camille mean, and where does it come from?
- French from Latin Camillus/Camilla, a name of uncertain Etruscan origin. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- In which country does Camille have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 179 thousand people named Camille in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled camille.
- How common is the name Camille?
- In the United States, the national register counted 62,246 people named Camille in 2020, about 1 in 5.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Camille compared with other names?
- In France, Camille is the 45th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/camilleThe 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, “Camille” — the 45th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.