Camil
A rarely given variant of Kamil, from Latin, where it once named an attendant at a religious service. Only about 42 men in Poland carry it, and no boys received it last year.
Camil Pronunciation
Camil is pronounced TSAH-meel (/ˈt͡samil/).
What Camil means
Where Camil comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Camil comes from Latin. The Roman word camillus named a freeborn boy who assisted a priest during religious rites, pouring water and carrying the sacred implements at the altar. That is the sense behind the short meaning: an attendant at a religious service. The feminine form appears in Virgil's Aeneid, where Camilla runs as a warrior maiden, and the family name Camillus belonged to Marcus Furius Camillus, a general of the early Republic.
In Poland the name meets you more often as Kamil. Camil keeps the older Latin spelling, closer to the root. The cross-gender form is Kamila.
The second Polish meaning, szlachetnie urodzony, points back to that Roman world. Those altar boys were chosen from good families, freeborn and well raised. So the name gathered a sense of noble birth alongside its duty at the shrine. On a Polish form at the urząd, Camil sits one letter away from Kamil, and that single c holds the Latin still.
How many people are named Camil
1 in 508243 men in Poland is named Camil. 42 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5923 among male names.
Camil as a middle name
Camil is a first name for 42 men in Poland and a middle name for another 13, a 76/24 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2601st, between Bình (13) and Campbell (13).
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#2599 Brice13
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#2600 Bình13
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#2601 Camil13
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#2602 Campbell13
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#2603 Ciprian13