Meaning not yet researched.
Carmel: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 26 in 2025. Its best rank was #585 in 1914.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #585 in 1914; #5,004 in 2025. About 70% of babies named Carmel in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,004 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1914, at #585.
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Carmel: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 26 girls in 2025. Peak: #585 in 1914 · most girls in one year: 155 (1962).
In 2025, 26 US girls were named Carmel, making it the 5,004th most common girls’ name of the year, down 211 places from #4,793 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 28 girls named Carmel in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #585, reached in 1914. The most girls given the name in a single year was 155, in 1962. For comparison, it was #6,777 in 2015 and #1,124 in 1950.
In 2025, 11 US boys were named Carmel, making it the 7,280th most common boys’ name of the year, up 3,896 places from #11,176 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 6 boys named Carmel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #950, reached in 1918. That year also had the most boys given the name: 49. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #2,230 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Carmel in 135 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1888 with 5 babies. In all, 8,609 US babies have been given the name, 84% of them girls and 16% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,517 babies named Carmel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 163 US girls were named Carmel; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 28. In 2025 that was about 1 in 61,818 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Carmelle, Carmell and Karmel are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Carmelle (324), Carmell (164), Karmel (158), Karmell (21).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Carmel in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #5,004 | 11 | #7,280 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,793 | 6 | #11,176 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,584 | 7 | #9,921 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,036 | 6 | #11,098 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,118 | 6 | #11,024 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,064 | 5 | #12,362 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,820 | 8 | #9,035 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,739 | — | — |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,094 | 6 | #11,003 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,004 | 7 | #9,840 |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,777 | — | — |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,029 | 8 | #8,908 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,856 | 9 | #8,223 |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,930 | 7 | #9,874 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,183 | 7 | #9,783 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,823 | — | — |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,611 | 10 | #7,777 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,607 | 8 | #9,133 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,263 | 7 | #9,929 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,635 | 8 | #8,850 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,319 | 6 | #10,318 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,017 | 8 | #8,255 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,361 | — | — |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,119 | 5 | #10,920 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,863 | — | — |
| 2000 | 18 | #5,987 | — | — |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,604 | 5 | #10,126 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,182 | 5 | #9,837 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,671 | 6 | #8,283 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,108 | — | — |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,681 | — | — |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,484 | — | — |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,029 | — | — |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,305 | — | — |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,835 | 6 | #7,396 |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,535 | 5 | #8,298 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,798 | — | — |
| 1988 | 30 | #3,237 | — | — |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,443 | 10 | #4,288 |
| 1986 | 27 | #3,288 | 7 | #5,415 |
| 1985 | 37 | #2,603 | 8 | #4,760 |
| 1984 | 29 | #2,999 | 7 | #5,046 |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,725 | — | — |
| 1982 | 29 | #3,024 | 5 | #6,503 |
| 1981 | 35 | #2,619 | 7 | #5,018 |
| 1980 | 49 | #2,099 | 6 | #5,615 |
| 1979 | 46 | #2,154 | — | — |
| 1978 | 40 | #2,273 | 6 | #5,149 |
| 1977 | 40 | #2,262 | 6 | #5,217 |
| 1976 | 43 | #2,031 | — | — |
| 1975 | 59 | #1,642 | 7 | #4,381 |
| 1974 | 54 | #1,693 | 8 | #3,888 |
| 1973 | 47 | #1,806 | — | — |
| 1972 | 55 | #1,631 | 8 | #3,669 |
| 1971 | 63 | #1,548 | — | — |
| 1970 | 83 | #1,293 | 6 | #4,304 |
| 1969 | 66 | #1,442 | 9 | #3,092 |
| 1968 | 94 | #1,099 | 6 | #3,738 |
| 1967 | 71 | #1,282 | — | — |
| 1966 | 86 | #1,142 | 8 | #3,023 |
| 1965 | 83 | #1,177 | 5 | #3,987 |
| 1964 | 110 | #1,026 | 9 | #2,889 |
| 1963 | 124 | #949 | 10 | #2,694 |
| 1962 | 155 | #848 | 6 | #3,687 |
| 1961 | 108 | #1,057 | 7 | #3,399 |
| 1960 | 131 | #932 | 11 | #2,555 |
| 1959 | 122 | #950 | 10 | #2,682 |
| 1958 | 115 | #963 | 17 | #1,963 |
| 1957 | 143 | #848 | 8 | #3,051 |
| 1956 | 136 | #851 | 8 | #3,004 |
| 1955 | 136 | #830 | 9 | #2,797 |
| 1954 | 50 | #1,425 | 8 | #2,987 |
| 1953 | 69 | #1,165 | 11 | #2,411 |
| 1952 | 72 | #1,108 | 14 | #2,088 |
| 1951 | 75 | #1,069 | 16 | #1,915 |
| 1950 | 67 | #1,124 | 12 | #2,230 |
| 1949 | 60 | #1,174 | 18 | #1,766 |
| 1948 | 70 | #1,055 | 19 | #1,711 |
| 1947 | 88 | #943 | 14 | #2,089 |
| 1946 | 64 | #1,061 | 18 | #1,702 |
| 1945 | 58 | #1,016 | 17 | #1,636 |
| 1944 | 48 | #1,129 | 18 | #1,638 |
| 1943 | 51 | #1,127 | 20 | #1,587 |
| 1942 | 65 | #971 | 27 | #1,338 |
| 1941 | 68 | #887 | 18 | #1,644 |
| 1940 | 45 | #1,081 | 13 | #1,996 |
| 1939 | 65 | #869 | 23 | #1,398 |
| 1938 | 52 | #986 | 16 | #1,753 |
| 1937 | 63 | #871 | 22 | #1,451 |
| 1936 | 70 | #806 | 21 | #1,471 |
| 1935 | 63 | #866 | 17 | #1,718 |
| 1934 | 77 | #764 | 15 | #1,871 |
| 1933 | 71 | #783 | 17 | #1,717 |
| 1932 | 107 | #646 | 32 | #1,201 |
| 1931 | 87 | #722 | 18 | #1,704 |
| 1930 | 94 | #717 | 27 | #1,401 |
| 1929 | 109 | #670 | 26 | #1,417 |
| 1928 | 100 | #703 | 28 | #1,390 |
| 1927 | 113 | #682 | 20 | #1,751 |
| 1926 | 131 | #624 | 24 | #1,522 |
| 1925 | 139 | #623 | 37 | #1,166 |
| 1924 | 153 | #601 | 36 | #1,208 |
| 1923 | 137 | #630 | 35 | #1,216 |
| 1922 | 100 | #725 | 28 | #1,402 |
| 1921 | 121 | #672 | 39 | #1,141 |
| 1920 | 115 | #676 | 26 | #1,462 |
| 1919 | 105 | #682 | 23 | #1,537 |
| 1918 | 96 | #731 | 49 | #950 |
| 1917 | 92 | #730 | 39 | #1,065 |
| 1916 | 100 | #684 | 32 | #1,161 |
| 1915 | 108 | #632 | 23 | #1,417 |
| 1914 | 94 | #585 | 30 | #1,028 |
| 1913 | 54 | #708 | 23 | #1,052 |
| 1912 | 56 | #669 | 13 | #1,369 |
| 1911 | 49 | #610 | 6 | #1,564 |
| 1910 | 40 | #673 | 8 | #1,217 |
| 1909 | 26 | #795 | — | — |
| 1908 | 27 | #744 | 6 | #1,238 |
| 1907 | 26 | #740 | — | — |
| 1906 | 30 | #663 | 5 | #1,271 |
| 1905 | 24 | #737 | — | — |
| 1904 | 21 | #783 | — | — |
| 1903 | 16 | #865 | — | — |
| 1902 | 10 | #1,141 | — | — |
| 1901 | 17 | #801 | — | — |
| 1900 | 19 | #864 | — | — |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,638 | — | — |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,275 | — | — |
| 1897 | 9 | #1,097 | — | — |
| 1896 | 9 | #1,141 | — | — |
| 1894 | 8 | #1,147 | — | — |
| 1892 | 7 | #1,186 | — | — |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,360 | — | — |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,235 | — | — |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,308 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).