Camila comes from the Latin camillus, meaning a young attendant who assisted Roman priests at religious ceremonies — specifically a noble-born child who helped with sacrifices and rites. The name is associated with Camilla, queen of the Volsci, a warrior maiden in Virgil's Aeneid who could run across a field of grain without bending the stalks.
Camila is the standard Spanish and Portuguese form, while Camilla is the English. The Spanish form has surged in the United States in the 2010s, in part through the singer Camila Cabello, who was born in Cuba and raised in Miami. Today Camila sits in the U.S. top 15 and the top 5 in many Spanish-speaking countries.
Camila reduces to seven — the number of independence, observation, and inner reflection.