Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Kamilo isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2005. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kamilo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 353
- 353 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2023
- 42 babies
- 2025
- 38
- #3,164 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +139%
- Rising fast
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 38 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 3,164 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 138.9% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. In 2025, California had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (9).
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kamilo’s family of names
In Esperanto usage, Kamilo has a diminutive in Kaĉjo. In Basque usage, Kamilo has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Kamil.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Kamilo
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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