Kamila
More than 100,000 Polish women carry it, yet it barely reaches newborns anymore: fewer than 200 girls got it last year. Slavic in root, it once marked someone nobly born.
Kamila Pronunciation
Kamila is pronounced kah-MEE-lah (/kaˈmila/).
What Kamila means
Where Kamila comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
In the Polish name calendar, Kamila keeps company with a family of Slavic forms: Mila, Milena, Ludmiła. Emilia sits close by as well. In Mila and Ludmiła you can hear the old Slavic root mil, meaning dear or gracious, and that softness colours how the whole group sounds today.
Two older senses cling to Kamila. One reads it as attendant at a religious ceremony, a gloss that reaches back through the Latin Camilla and Camillus rather than the Slavic side. That Latin thread touches a documented life: Kamil de Lellis, born Camillus, died on 14 July 1614 and founded an order to nurse the sick and the dying. His feast still fixes the name-day for Kamil and Kamila.
The Polish reading, szlachetnie urodzona, nobly born, pulls in a different direction, toward status rather than service. Both readings live in the same name. On a school register, Kamila reads as ordinary and settled. The diminutive is Mila.
When Kamila celebrates name day
Kamila appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, 2 of them as a main name, the first on 31 May.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Kamila
1 in 202 women in Poland is named Kamila. 111,484 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #118 among female names.
Kamila's popularity over time
198 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #185 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #118 name among living women, even as it slips to #185 among newborns.
Where Kamila is most popular
Kamila is most popular in Lesser Poland, 98% above the national average (375 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Subcarpathian (+57%) and Podlaskie (+51%). It is least common in Kuyavian-Pomeranian and Greater Poland, 59% and 42% below average respectively.
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Lesser Poland375 girls born+98%
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Subcarpathian158 girls born+57%
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Podlaskie83 girls born+51%
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Silesian274 girls born+44%
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Lublin101 girls born+18%
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Opole34 girls born−12%
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Masovian258 girls born−13%
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Lower Silesian102 girls born−22%
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Warmian-Masurian41 girls born−32%
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Świętokrzyskie30 girls born−35%
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Lubusz26 girls born−37%
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West Pomeranian44 girls born−38%
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Łódź63 girls born−40%
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Pomeranian72 girls born−41%
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Greater Poland104 girls born−42%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian37 girls born−59%
Kamila as a middle name
Kamila is a first name for 111,484 women in Poland and a middle name for another 31,160, a 78/22 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 69th, between Bogumiła (31,326) and Oliwia (29,977).
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#67 Mariola31,537
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#68 Bogumiła31,326
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#69 Kamila31,160
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#70 Oliwia29,977
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#71 Genowefa27,302