Meaning not yet researched.
Carmela: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 186 in 2025. Its best rank was #266 in 1923.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #266 in 1923; #1,219 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Carmela in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,219 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1923, at #266.
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Carmela: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 186 girls in 2025. Peak: #266 in 1923 · most girls in one year: 586 (1923).
In 2025, 186 US girls were named Carmela, making it the 1,219th most common girls’ name of the year, down 62 places from #1,157 in 2024. That is 22 fewer than the 208 girls named Carmela in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #266, reached in 1923. That year also had the most girls given the name: 586. For comparison, it was #1,832 in 2015 and #627 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Carmela in 139 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 5 babies. In all, 24,511 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 5,430 babies named Carmela.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,446 US girls were named Carmela; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 208. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,641 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Carmela ranked highest in Connecticut in 2025, at #302 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Carmen (159,756 babies since 1880), Carmella (20,653 babies since 1880) and Carmelita (6,965 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Carmelina, Karmella and Carmilla 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Carmelina (1,494), Karmella (521), Carmilla (451), Karmela (219), Carmila (23), Carmala (6), Carminia (6).
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 Carmela in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | 10 | #302 | — |
| New Jersey | 23 | #351 | #872 |
| New York | 32 | #521 | #1,228 |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #574 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #658 | #1,135 |
| Ohio | 12 | #754 | #912 |
| Illinois | 9 | #944 | #1,487 |
| California | 19 | #1,285 | #1,607 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,732 | #1,888 |
| Texas | 8 | #2,443 | #2,639 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 186 | #1,219 | — | — |
| 2024 | 208 | #1,157 | — | — |
| 2023 | 153 | #1,456 | — | — |
| 2022 | 131 | #1,614 | — | — |
| 2021 | 135 | #1,555 | — | — |
| 2020 | 138 | #1,537 | — | — |
| 2019 | 149 | #1,477 | — | — |
| 2018 | 115 | #1,777 | — | — |
| 2017 | 114 | #1,816 | — | — |
| 2016 | 117 | #1,779 | — | — |
| 2015 | 113 | #1,832 | — | — |
| 2014 | 124 | #1,694 | — | — |
| 2013 | 117 | #1,755 | — | — |
| 2012 | 87 | #2,164 | — | — |
| 2011 | 101 | #1,955 | — | — |
| 2010 | 94 | #2,097 | — | — |
| 2009 | 115 | #1,850 | — | — |
| 2008 | 113 | #1,882 | — | — |
| 2007 | 119 | #1,793 | — | — |
| 2006 | 124 | #1,695 | — | — |
| 2005 | 124 | #1,625 | — | — |
| 2004 | 110 | #1,749 | — | — |
| 2003 | 98 | #1,876 | — | — |
| 2002 | 78 | #2,147 | — | — |
| 2001 | 68 | #2,337 | — | — |
| 2000 | 56 | #2,636 | — | — |
| 1999 | 79 | #1,980 | — | — |
| 1998 | 55 | #2,502 | — | — |
| 1997 | 59 | #2,287 | — | — |
| 1996 | 63 | #2,155 | — | — |
| 1995 | 69 | #1,986 | — | — |
| 1994 | 65 | #2,105 | — | — |
| 1993 | 58 | #2,241 | — | — |
| 1992 | 78 | #1,833 | — | — |
| 1991 | 67 | #2,036 | — | — |
| 1990 | 81 | #1,782 | — | — |
| 1989 | 83 | #1,653 | — | — |
| 1988 | 78 | #1,662 | — | — |
| 1987 | 72 | #1,684 | — | — |
| 1986 | 73 | #1,624 | — | — |
| 1985 | 94 | #1,373 | — | — |
| 1984 | 67 | #1,637 | 5 | #6,454 |
| 1983 | 85 | #1,391 | — | — |
| 1982 | 107 | #1,230 | — | — |
| 1981 | 104 | #1,249 | — | — |
| 1980 | 132 | #1,069 | — | — |
| 1979 | 100 | #1,272 | — | — |
| 1978 | 116 | #1,119 | — | — |
| 1977 | 114 | #1,118 | — | — |
| 1976 | 134 | #950 | — | — |
| 1975 | 162 | #831 | — | — |
| 1974 | 142 | #896 | — | — |
| 1973 | 141 | #890 | — | — |
| 1972 | 151 | #855 | — | — |
| 1971 | 164 | #837 | — | — |
| 1970 | 176 | #795 | — | — |
| 1969 | 199 | #714 | — | — |
| 1968 | 182 | #727 | — | — |
| 1967 | 205 | #671 | — | — |
| 1966 | 195 | #701 | — | — |
| 1965 | 192 | #715 | — | — |
| 1964 | 225 | #683 | — | — |
| 1963 | 206 | #711 | — | — |
| 1962 | 253 | #635 | — | — |
| 1961 | 221 | #705 | — | — |
| 1960 | 213 | #697 | — | — |
| 1959 | 219 | #675 | — | — |
| 1958 | 190 | #716 | — | — |
| 1957 | 181 | #741 | — | — |
| 1956 | 183 | #707 | — | — |
| 1955 | 148 | #788 | — | — |
| 1954 | 141 | #789 | — | — |
| 1953 | 148 | #749 | — | — |
| 1952 | 174 | #670 | — | — |
| 1951 | 153 | #706 | — | — |
| 1950 | 183 | #627 | — | — |
| 1949 | 161 | #660 | — | — |
| 1948 | 172 | #630 | — | — |
| 1947 | 176 | #631 | — | — |
| 1946 | 154 | #635 | — | — |
| 1945 | 156 | #585 | — | — |
| 1944 | 141 | #616 | — | — |
| 1943 | 203 | #526 | — | — |
| 1942 | 196 | #529 | — | — |
| 1941 | 176 | #527 | — | — |
| 1940 | 196 | #490 | — | — |
| 1939 | 198 | #473 | — | — |
| 1938 | 209 | #466 | — | — |
| 1937 | 209 | #452 | — | — |
| 1936 | 233 | #425 | — | — |
| 1935 | 252 | #406 | — | — |
| 1934 | 275 | #388 | — | — |
| 1933 | 305 | #363 | — | — |
| 1932 | 384 | #325 | — | — |
| 1931 | 363 | #334 | — | — |
| 1930 | 457 | #311 | — | — |
| 1929 | 498 | #292 | — | — |
| 1928 | 499 | #300 | — | — |
| 1927 | 529 | #292 | — | — |
| 1926 | 524 | #292 | — | — |
| 1925 | 565 | #280 | — | — |
| 1924 | 578 | #273 | — | — |
| 1923 | 586 | #266 | — | — |
| 1922 | 574 | #271 | — | — |
| 1921 | 564 | #279 | — | — |
| 1920 | 513 | #290 | — | — |
| 1919 | 480 | #291 | — | — |
| 1918 | 517 | #277 | — | — |
| 1917 | 479 | #281 | — | — |
| 1916 | 451 | #279 | — | — |
| 1915 | 430 | #281 | — | — |
| 1914 | 341 | #284 | — | — |
| 1913 | 238 | #306 | — | — |
| 1912 | 213 | #314 | — | — |
| 1911 | 172 | #302 | — | — |
| 1910 | 140 | #330 | — | — |
| 1909 | 106 | #351 | — | — |
| 1908 | 105 | #349 | — | — |
| 1907 | 113 | #324 | — | — |
| 1906 | 94 | #342 | — | — |
| 1905 | 88 | #357 | — | — |
| 1904 | 78 | #372 | — | — |
| 1903 | 69 | #381 | — | — |
| 1902 | 61 | #399 | — | — |
| 1901 | 44 | #449 | — | — |
| 1900 | 57 | #441 | — | — |
| 1899 | 49 | #418 | — | — |
| 1898 | 38 | #502 | — | — |
| 1897 | 32 | #522 | — | — |
| 1896 | 33 | #519 | — | — |
| 1895 | 37 | #481 | — | — |
| 1894 | 31 | #518 | — | — |
| 1893 | 19 | #665 | — | — |
| 1892 | 14 | #802 | — | — |
| 1891 | 18 | #627 | — | — |
| 1890 | 9 | #951 | — | — |
| 1889 | 15 | #663 | — | — |
| 1888 | 17 | #615 | — | — |
| 1882 | 5 | #929 | — | — |
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).