Camilo

Where Camilo comes from

Camilo hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1909
    First appearance
    #1,440 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1916
    Camilo José Cela born
    Spanish writer
  3. 1932
    Camilo Cienfuegos born
    Cuban revolutionary fighter and guerilla
  4. 2022
    Peak, #451
    682 babies named Camilo — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Camilo José Cela · Spanish writer, 1916–2002
  • Camilo Cienfuegos · Cuban revolutionary fighter and guerilla, 1932–1959
  • Camilo Vargas · Colombian association football player, born 1989
  • Camilo Torres Restrepo · Colombian theologian, 1929–1966
  • Camilo Castelo Branco · 19th-century Portuguese writer, 1825–1890

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.