Entry № 1737 · Latin origin

Camellia Camellia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kuh-MEL-yuh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"The camellia flower (Coco Chanel's signature)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Modern (Latin)

A name that means "the camellia flower (coco chanel's signature)".

Camellia is from the Latin botanical genus — named in 1735 by Carl Linnaeus in honor of Georg Joseph Kamel (1661-1706), a Jesuit missionary and botanist. C.

The camellia flower.

The name in its native script.

Camellia
Transliteration
Camellia
Pronunciation
/ kəˈmɛl.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Camellia stands.

Camellia does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Camellias before her.

Real people

In fiction
La Dame aux Camélias
Dumas's 1848 novel + Verdi's La Traviata.
1848

Names connected to Camellia.

The number behind Camellia.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Camellia reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.