Camilo Andres
A Spanish compound name that stays rare in Poland: just 51 men carry it, and none have been born here in over 20 years. Camilo traces to Latin, once naming a boy who attended religious rites.
Camilo Andres Pronunciation
Camilo Andres is pronounced tsah-MEE-lo-AHND-res (/t͡saˈmilɔ ˈandrɛs/).
What Camilo Andres means
Where Camilo Andres comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Camilo comes from the Latin Camillus. In ancient Rome a camillus was a boy of free, noble birth who attended a priest during sacred rites. The Polish gloss, szlachetnie urodzony chłopiec, holds onto that older picture, while the English sense keeps the role itself, an attendant at a religious ceremony.
Andrés is the Spanish form of Andrew. It goes back to the Greek Andreas, from andreios, meaning manly or brave. Set together, the two names give a young ceremonial servant beside a bearer called brave.
Spanish-speaking families carried Camilo far. Camilo José Cela, the novelist, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1989. Camilo Sesto filled arenas as a singer. On a Polish szkolna lista obecności the full Camilo Andrés would stand out among the Kacpers and Antonis, plainly Spanish in origin. The name stays undivided into diminutives here. What it offers is direct: a Latin root, a Spanish pair, a nobly born boy who served at the altar.
How many people are named Camilo Andres
1 in 418553 men in Poland is named Camilo Andres. 51 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5256 among male names.