Camilla
Meaning of Camilla
Camilla traces its lineage to the Latin camillus, a youthful attendant at sacred rites, and the mythic Camilla who ran so swiftly “she could skim the sea and never wet her feet.” That blend of grace and quiet steel still shimmers today, whether the name rolls out as kah-MEE-lah in Italy, kah-MEE-yah in Spanish-speaking homes, or the easygoing kuh-MIL-uh in English conversation. Modern ears may catch royal overtones—from Queen Camilla’s Buckingham polish—or literary whispers from Fanny Burney’s 18th-century heroine, yet the name remains refreshingly down-to-earth. In U.S. charts it has hovered around the Top 300 for generations: familiar enough to spell on the first try, uncommon enough to turn heads on the playground. All told, Camilla slips off the tongue like a lilting melody and promises a life touched by courage, elegance, and just a hint of adventurous wind at her heels.
Pronunciation
Italian
- Pronunced as kah-MEE-lah (/kaˈmiːla/)
Spanish
- Pronunced as kah-MEE-yah (/kaˈmi.ja/)
English
- Pronunced as kuh-MIL-uh (/kəˈmɪlə/)
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Notable People Named Camilla
| Camilla Battista da Varano of Camerino was an Italian princess, Poor Clare nun, and abbess venerated as a Catholic saint. |
| Camilla Belle is a Los Angeles born American actress who started in commercials and is known for Trapped Beneath the Earth, The Lost World Jurassic Park, 10000 BC, The Quiet, and The Mad Whale. |
| Hilary Camilla Cavendish, Baroness Cavendish of Little Venice, is a British journalist and Financial Times columnist, a Harvard senior fellow, and former policy director to David Cameron who entered the House of Lords as a Conservative before leaving the whip to sit as a non affiliated peer. |
| American operatic soprano Camilla Ella Williams performed internationally and made history as the first African American with a regular contract at a major US opera company, the New York City Opera, after early honors including the Marian Anderson Fellowship. |
| Camilla Tominey is a British journalist and broadcaster who serves as associate editor and executive editor of The Daily Telegraph, writes a weekly column, co hosts The Daily T podcast with Tim Stanley, and presents a Sunday morning politics show on GB News. |
| Camilla Guiscardi Gandolfi was an Italian painter. |
| Camilla Dufour Crosland was an English writer of fiction, poetry, essays, and sketches who also translated plays and poems by Victor Hugo. |
| Camilla Franks is an Australian fashion designer best known for her vibrant kaftans and resort wear. |
| Camilla Hildegarde Wedgwood was a British anthropologist and academic leader, known for Pacific research and as one of the first female anthropologists in the British Commonwealth. |
| Camilla Sacre-Dallerup - She is a Danish author, life coach, hypnotherapist, and former ballroom dancer. |
| Camilla Pang - Camilla Sih Mai Pang is a British computational biologist, writer and autism advocate who won the 2020 Royal Society Prize for Science Books for her memoir Explaining Humans. |
| Camilla Gibb is an English-born Canadian writer based in Toronto. |
| Camilla Poindexter is an American reality TV star and model best known for Bad Girls Club season 8, with later stints on Love Games, Bad Girls All Star Battle, Redemption, and House of Villains season 2 in 2025. |
| Camilla Marcus is a New York chef and restaurateur who owned the SoHo restaurant Westbourne and helped lead the Independent Restaurant Coalition in 2020 to support independent restaurants. |
| Italian noblewoman Camilla Pio di Savoia founded Santa Chiara, the first female monastery in Carpi, served as abbess, and has an open cause for canonization. |
