Camilla (given name)
| Camilla | |
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| Pronunciation |
/kəˈmiːlə/ kə-MEE-lə /kəˈmɪlə/ kə-MIL-ə |
| Gender | Feminine |
| Name day | July 14 |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Latin (possibly Etruscan) |
| Meaning | "acolyte" (young cult officiant); a Latin cognomen |
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| Camille | |
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| Pronunciation |
/kəˈmɪl/ French: [kaˈmij] |
| Gender | Unisex |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | French form of a Latin name |
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Camilla is a feminine given name. The French variant Camille may be either masculine or feminine. The Portuguese and Spanish variant is spelled Camila.
It ultimately originates as the feminine of camillus, a term for a youth serving as acolyte in the ritual of ancient Roman religion, which may ultimately be of Etruscan origin.
The name Camillo is the Italian male version of Camilla. Camillus came to be used as a cognomen in Rome, and Camilla would be the feminine form of this cognomen from a period when cognomina had become hereditary clan names. The most notable bearer of this name in Roman history is Marcus Furius Camillus (ca. 446 – 365 BC), who according to Livy and Plutarch, triumphed four times, was five times dictator, and was honoured with the title of "Second Founder of Rome". In the Aeneid, Camilla was the name of a princess of the Volsci who was given as a servant to the goddess Diana and raised as a "warrior virgin" of the Amazon type.
In the English-speaking world, the name was popularized Fanny Burney's novel Camilla of 1796. The form Camille was later associated with the heroine of Dumas' The Lady of the Camellias (1848), which served as the basis for Verdi's opera La Traviata and several films. In Dumas' novel, Camille is not the given name of the heroine; this name was applied to her in derived works in the English-speaking world, presumably due to the similarity in sound to the floral name Camellia (which was coined by Linnaeus (1753) after the name of the Czech Jesuit missionary Georg Joseph Kamel). The name Camille was given to the heroine as early as in a silent film of 1915, but it became widely known (and led to an increased popularity of the given name in the United States) with Greta Garbo's Camille of 1936.
Hypocorisms of the name include "Milly", "Millie", and "Mille".
List of people with the given name Camilla
- Camila Cabello (born 1997), singer-songwriter and Fifth Harmony member
- Camilla Collett (1813–1895), Norwegian feminist.
- Camilla Odhnoff (1928–2013), Swedish politician
- Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (born 1947), wife of Charles, Prince of Wales
- Camilla Henemark (born 1964), Swedish singer
- Camilla Long (born 1978), journalist for The Sunday Times
- Camilla Cavendish (born 1968), journalist, currently heading No 10 Policy Unit
- Camilla Crociani (born 1971), wife of Prince Carlo of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duke of Castro
- Camilla Dallerup (born 1974), British-based Danish ballroom dancer
- Camila Pitanga (born 1977), Brazilian film and television actress
- Camilla D'Errico, Italian-Canadian visual artist
- Camila Alves (born 1982), Brazilian-American model and designer
- Camila Bordonaba (born 1984), Argentinian actress and musician
- Camilla Belle (born 1986), American actress
- Camilla Marie Beeput (born 1984), British singer
- Camila Giorgi (born 1991), Italian tennis player
- Camila Silva (born 1992), Chilean tennis player
- Camila Vezzoso (born 1993), Uruguayan model crowned Miss Uruguay 2012
People with the given name Camille
Men
- Camille Desmoulins (1760–1794), a French journalist and revolutionary
- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875), a French painter
- Camille Pissarro (1830–1903), a French impressionist painter
- Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921), French composer
- Camille Jordan (born 1838), a French mathematician
- Camille Flammarion (1842–1925), a French astronomer and author
- Camille Sée (1847–1919), a French politician
- Camille Chamoun (1900–1987), a former president of Lebanon
- Camille Huard (born 1951), a French-Canadian boxer
- Camille Lacourt (born 1985), a French swimmer
Women
- Camille Claudel (1864–1943), a French female sculptor
- Camille Paglia (born 1947), an American author
- Camille Dalmais (born 1978), a French singer and musician, better known as Camille
- Camille Anderson (born 1981), an American actress and model
- Camille O'Sullivan (born 1970), a French-Irish cabaret singer traveling with the Spiegeltent
- Camille Muffat (1989-2015), a French swimmer
- Camille Pin (born 1981), a French tennis player
- Camille Munro (born 1991), Miss World Canada winner
- Camille Kitt, actress and identical twin of Kennerly Kitt. Also known as The "Harp Twins."
- Camille De Pazzis, a French actress
- Camille Catala, a French football player
- Camille Grammer, a reality television star
Fictional characters
- Greta Garbo's Camille (1936)
- Camilla (muppet), the Muppet
- Princess Camille, protagonist of Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
- Camille, the main villainess in Power Rangers Jungle Fury
- Camille Montes, the lead Bond girl in the 2008 James Bond film Quantum of Solace
- Camille, a pseudonym used by Prince during the late 1980s and early 1990s
- Camille Leon, a fictional shapeshifting character from Kim Possible portrayed by Ashley Tisdale
- Camille Saroyan, character of the TV series Bones
- Camille the Wood Elf, Character of Troll Tales
- Camilla (Castlevania), one of Dracula's servants in the Castlevania series
- Camille Bordey, a detective sergeant in the BBC series Death In Paradise
- Camilla Gevert, fictional character in the Bert Diaries
- Camille, a main character in the French series Les Revenants
- Camilla Macaulay, fictional character in the novel The Secret History
- Kamille Bidan, the protagonist of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam