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Help[Opinions] Camille
Hi !!!
I really love this French name.
It is charming and super feminine to me.
But I read it is also masculine...
Anyone met a Camille (b)?
After that I'm not so sure with the pronounciation.
It comes natural to me say kah-MEELL but I heard that the French pronounciation is actually kah-MEE-yə where this "yə" is something similar to the Spanish "ll". Is it true?
By the way..
WDYTO Camille?
Dated? Youthful? Simple? Refined? Anything else?
Any MN suggestion?
Byeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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I really love this French name.
It is charming and super feminine to me.
But I read it is also masculine...
Anyone met a Camille (b)?
After that I'm not so sure with the pronounciation.
It comes natural to me say kah-MEELL but I heard that the French pronounciation is actually kah-MEE-yə where this "yə" is something similar to the Spanish "ll". Is it true?
By the way..
WDYTO Camille?
Dated? Youthful? Simple? Refined? Anything else?
Any MN suggestion?
Byeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Alvise Basilio Dante Fabrizio Flavio Isidoro Leone Niccolò Romeo Valentino
Anastasia Angelica Aurora Bianca Cassandra Celeste Dafne Dalia Diamante Dora Fiammetta Flora Irene Iris Lucilla Luna Margherita Marta Minerva Morgana Olimpia Perla Serafina Serena Stella Susanna Talita Tamara Vanessa Veronica
This message was edited 2/24/2017, 3:37 PM
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Usually, I have heard Camille pronounced as Kah-MEEL or kah-MEE-yə. I've never encountered anyone saying kah-MEELL before. I might actually like the name better if your pronunciation was used.
It sounds dated, simple, and like a name that they might have used in the old west or in pioneer days. I can see Camille being more commonly used in Louisiana Creole parts of the U.S.
It sounds dated, simple, and like a name that they might have used in the old west or in pioneer days. I can see Camille being more commonly used in Louisiana Creole parts of the U.S.
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I've always loved Camille. In English it's typically pronounced kah-MEEL. I've met several female Camilles, but never a male. It comes off as quite feminine to me, and I would be surprised to find an English-speaker using it for a male. It's pretty solidly female among English-speakers, as far as I can tell.
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I think both pronounciations are used in French.
Technically it's a unisex name, but it sounds very dated for a boy.
It's nice, but I'd probably use Camilla myself.
Technically it's a unisex name, but it sounds very dated for a boy.
It's nice, but I'd probably use Camilla myself.
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I have a nephew-by-marriage, named Camile (not sure of spelling.)He's French-speaking, so he pronounces it as you've written.
I like Camille (female);I do find it youthful and suiting an active person.
I like Camille (female);I do find it youthful and suiting an active person.
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I saw an off-Broadway production of the play Therese Raquin. There is a male Camille in that play, and his name was pronounced exactly the way you described.
I've never met one in real life. Only in that play. I kind of like it, but I don't think it works in an English speaking context, so I could never use it. Also, the character in the play would be a very undesirable namesake.
I've never met one in real life. Only in that play. I kind of like it, but I don't think it works in an English speaking context, so I could never use it. Also, the character in the play would be a very undesirable namesake.
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I love Camille for a girl.
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I love Camille for a girl.
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I happen to know a family from Paris (living here temporarily) whose daughter is Camille!
We normally say "kə-MEEL" in American English, but Camille's mother says it more like ... ka-MEEY, with the Y very strong, sounding almost like an L, but not like an L. I can tell when she says it that isn't Camie ... The LLE / Y does not quite make another syllable (yə) but it is a more emphatic Y (y as in you) than any English word ending in Y. I hope that is an understandable description!
I like the name but it is hard for me to say Camille without making an L sound!
I guess I think of it as youthful because Camille is ten and she is the only one I've ever met.
We normally say "kə-MEEL" in American English, but Camille's mother says it more like ... ka-MEEY, with the Y very strong, sounding almost like an L, but not like an L. I can tell when she says it that isn't Camie ... The LLE / Y does not quite make another syllable (yə) but it is a more emphatic Y (y as in you) than any English word ending in Y. I hope that is an understandable description!
I like the name but it is hard for me to say Camille without making an L sound!
I guess I think of it as youthful because Camille is ten and she is the only one I've ever met.
This message was edited 2/24/2017, 5:49 PM
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Camille is a lovely name. It is so beautiful and calm. Maybe because it makes me think of chamomile, it has something really calming and soothing about it. The German word for chamomile is Kamille (kah-MILL-leh) so I guess that's where I get this association from. I always think of white, white flowers - it is a very calm, pure and innocent name to me. I much prefer it over Camilla.
In French it is pronounced with two syllables. kah-MEE. There is no L sound in it. It is a tiny tiny bit dated in France. I know many girls with this name. It used to be really popular. It is a bit of a 90s name, in my opinion. It was at its most popular in 1998 but I know many born between circa 1986 and 1997 as well. It was at #3 in 1998. It made the top 50 as early as 1984 (#46) and it went up very quickly. It was in the top 20 by 1989 and in 1990 it made the top ten at #8. In 1993 it made the top 5 at #5. In 1997 it was at #3 where it stayed until 2000.
It is out of the top 10 now. In 2014 it was at #13. That is still pretty high, but compared to #3 in the 90s it has fallen a lot and it doesn't feel fresh anymore. So I guess you could say that it feels a bit tired now but is still being used a lot, kind of like Emily in the US (for years at #1, still popular in the top 10 but starting to feel tired) or maybe like Alessia in Italy (still common but starting to decline in popularity or maybe Sara just slightly less common since Camille never made it to #1).
Yes, it has been used on males. But to me it sounds super feminine because it was way more common on girls and I grew up among many female Camilles. But while it was most common for girls in the 1990s it was most common for men in the 1910s. So much much earlier. It is still used nowadays, it hasn't completely disappeared. But it ranks much lower. While Camille for girls was still in the top 10 in 2012, for boys it was pretty low at #72. But it did make the top 100 so it is being used quite a bit!
On the website meilleursprenoms.com it is written that Camille was more popular for boys than girls until the 60s and then it turned around.
In French it is pronounced with two syllables. kah-MEE. There is no L sound in it. It is a tiny tiny bit dated in France. I know many girls with this name. It used to be really popular. It is a bit of a 90s name, in my opinion. It was at its most popular in 1998 but I know many born between circa 1986 and 1997 as well. It was at #3 in 1998. It made the top 50 as early as 1984 (#46) and it went up very quickly. It was in the top 20 by 1989 and in 1990 it made the top ten at #8. In 1993 it made the top 5 at #5. In 1997 it was at #3 where it stayed until 2000.
It is out of the top 10 now. In 2014 it was at #13. That is still pretty high, but compared to #3 in the 90s it has fallen a lot and it doesn't feel fresh anymore. So I guess you could say that it feels a bit tired now but is still being used a lot, kind of like Emily in the US (for years at #1, still popular in the top 10 but starting to feel tired) or maybe like Alessia in Italy (still common but starting to decline in popularity or maybe Sara just slightly less common since Camille never made it to #1).
Yes, it has been used on males. But to me it sounds super feminine because it was way more common on girls and I grew up among many female Camilles. But while it was most common for girls in the 1990s it was most common for men in the 1910s. So much much earlier. It is still used nowadays, it hasn't completely disappeared. But it ranks much lower. While Camille for girls was still in the top 10 in 2012, for boys it was pretty low at #72. But it did make the top 100 so it is being used quite a bit!
On the website meilleursprenoms.com it is written that Camille was more popular for boys than girls until the 60s and then it turned around.
This message was edited 2/24/2017, 4:20 PM
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