Kamilia
Fewer than 200 women in Poland carry this spelling, so meeting one would stick in memory. The everyday form is Kamila; Kamilia is the fuller version of a Latin name for a young attendant at a priest's rites, a girl of noble birth.
Kamilia Pronunciation
Kamilia is pronounced kah-MEEL-yah (/kaˈmilja/).
What Kamilia means
Where Kamilia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Kamilia comes from Latin. In old Rome a camilla was a girl of free, noble birth who assisted a priest at sacred rites, handling the vessels and objects the ritual required. From that duty the name draws its meaning: a young ceremonial attendant. The Polish reading holds two threads together, pomocnica kapłana and szlachetnie urodzona, the helper beside the altar and the well-born child.
Poland knows the name better as Kamila, and the masculine Kamil stands close by, the same Latin word given to a boy. Kamilia is the fuller spelling. Look down a school class register and a Kamila might sit two names away from a Kamil.
Their name-day falls on 14 July, kept for Kamil de Lellis, the sixteenth-century founder of an order that nursed the sick. What links him to the Roman girl is only the calendar and the sound. The older meaning stays fixed in the Latin: a young attendant of noble birth.
How many people are named Kamilia
1 in 118652 women in Poland is named Kamilia. 190 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2294 among female names.
Kamilia's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Kamilia as a middle name
Kamilia is a first name for 190 women in Poland and a middle name for another 93, a 67/33 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 693rd, between Stefanie (94) and Matilda (93).
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