Camille

Where Camille comes from

From French Camille (“Camilla”). Doublet of Camilla.
— Wiktionary's entry for Camille
  • French
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1830
    Camille Pissarro born
    Danish-French painter
  2. 1835
    Camille Saint-Saëns born
    French composer, organist, conductor and pianist
  3. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #628 among girls — 8 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 2022
    Peak, #236
    1,295 babies named Camille — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name from French.
Namesakes
  • Camille Pissarro · Danish-French painter, 1830–1903
  • Camille Saint-Saëns · French composer, organist, conductor and pianist, 1835–1921
  • Camille Flammarion · French astronomer and author, 1842–1925
  • Camille Desmoulins · French journalist, politician and revolutionary, 1760–1794
  • Camille Claudel · French sculptor, 1864–1943

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.