Name: Camilla
Gender: Female
Usage: Camilla, of latin origin, is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.
People having the name Camilla are in general originating from Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Camilla across the world, see Camillus.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Camilla is: Altar server, Young.
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The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 6. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: responsible, protective, stable, balanced, loving, compassionate.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Romantic, Nurturing
Ruling planet: Venus
Colors: Blue
Gemstones: Emerald
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The name Camilla is ranked on the 1,916th position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 220100 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.004% of the population. The name Camilla has seven characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Camilla for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
The name day of Camilla is 14 July.
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History and Origin
Camilla is a feminine given name. The French variant Camille may be either masculine or feminine.
It ultimately originates as the feminine of camillus, a term for a youth serving as acolyte in the ritual of ancient Roman religion, which may ultimately be of Etruscan origin. Camillus came to be used as a cognomen in Rome, and Camilla would be the feminine form of this cognomen from a period when cognomina had become hereditary clan names. The most notable bearer of this name in Roman history is Marcus Furius Camillus (ca. 446 – 365 BC), who according to Livy and Plutarch, triumphed four times, was five times dictator, and was honoured with the title of "Second Founder of Rome". In the Aeneid, Camilla was the name of a princess of the Volsci who was given as a servant to the goddess Diana and raised as a "warrior virgin" of the Amazon type.
In the English-speaking world, the name was popularized Fanny Burney's novel Camilla of 1796. The form Camille was later associated with the heroine of Dumas' The Lady of the Camellias (1848), which served as the basis for Verdi's opera La Traviata and several films. In Dumas' novel, Camille is not the given name of the heroine; this name was applied to her in derived works in the English-speaking world, presumably due to the similarity in sound to the floral name Camellia (which was coined by Linnaeus (1753) after the name of the Czech Jesuit missionary Georg Joseph Kamel). The name Camille was given to the heroine as early as in a silent film of 1915, but it became widely known (and led to an increased popularity of the given name in the United States) with Greta Garbo's Camille of 1936.
Hypocorisms of the name include Milly, Millie, Mille.
English and Italian: feminine form of the old Roman family name Camillus, of obscure and presumably non-Roman origin. According to tradition, recorded by the Roman poet Virgil, Camilla was the name of a warrior maiden, Queen of the Volcians, who fought in the army of Aeneas (Aeneid 7. 803–17). The masculine form is much less common, except in Italy, where it is bestowed in honour of St Camillo de Lellis (1550–1614), who founded the nursing order of the Ministers of the Sick.
Cognates: French: Camille (also m). Polish, Czech: Kamila.
Short form: English: Milla.
Pet form: English: Millie.
Masculine forms: Italian: Camillo. Spanish, Portuguese: Camilo. French: Camille (also f). Polish, Czech: Kamil.
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