Camilo
Camilo comes from the Latin *Camillus*, a boy who assisted a priest at the altar, which is where the "temple servant" sense begins. In Poland it stays a rarity: most people here have never met one, and the name reads Spanish by association, Latin at the root.
Camilo Pronunciation
Camilo is pronounced tsah-MEE-lo (/t͡saˈmilɔ/).
What Camilo means
Where Camilo comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Camilo comes from the Latin Camillus, a name once given to freeborn children who assisted a priest at the altar. Those attendants were called camilli, and the word points to the meaning kept on this page: temple servant. The child helped with the rites but held no priestly rank.
In Spanish the name settled in fully. No diminutive, no variant. Camilo José Cela, the Galician writer, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1989, and his signature kept the old Roman form intact.
The Polish gloss reads chłopiec ze szlachetnego rodu, a boy of noble birth. That sense grew from who the camilli actually were, since only well-born children could serve at the altar. The temple duty and the noble birth describe the same child. On a Polish class register the name would stand apart: Latin at the root, Spanish by association, Camilo.
How many people are named Camilo
1 in 130160 men in Poland is named Camilo. 164 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2518 among male names.
Camilo as a middle name
Camilo is a first name for 164 men in Poland and a middle name for another 307, a 35/65 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 402nd, between Liam (308) and Heinrich (303).
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#400 Celestyn309
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#401 Liam308
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#402 Camilo307
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#403 Heinrich303
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#404 Jurand302