Given name & surname
Camil
Camil is a masculine given name from Latin. It is used in Occitan.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1978. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Camil through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 176
- 81 boys · 95 girls
- Most popular year
- 2009
- 21 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 13 in 2009. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 557 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Camil’s family of names
In Greek usage, Camil is a transliteration of Καμίλ.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Camil
- Camil PetrescuRomanian playwright, novelist, philosopher and poet (1894–1957)
- Camil RessuRomanian painter and politician (1880-1962)
- Camil DouaMauritanian swimmer (born 2002)
- Camil MmaeeBelgian association football playerborn 2004
- Camil DomínguezDominican volleyball playerborn 1991
- Camil BaltazarRomanian writer (1902–1977)
- Yaacoub SemaanLebanese-born Syriac Catholic hierarch in Jerusalemborn 1980
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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