How Many People Are Named Camellia?
people named Camellia are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 113,211 people in the US has this name
Based on 3,347 babies named Camellia in Social Security records from 1921 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
138 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From the name of the flowering shrub, which was named for the botanist and missionary Georg Josef Kamel.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Camellia in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Camellia alive today is about 31 years old, and 54% are under 30. Half of them were between 6 and 55 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Camellia first appears in the records in 1921 and was given most often in 2024, to 138 babies. In 2025, 123 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1921 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Camellia has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,386, in 1948. In 2025 it ranked #1,676.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,676 |
| Best rank | #1,386 (1948) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,700 in the 2020s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Camellia alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Camellia were born in California than in any other state: about 399 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Camellia was given 3.8 times as often in Alabama, 3.5 times in California and 1.8 times in Texas.
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