Meaning not yet researched.
Carmelita: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 14 in 2025. Its best rank was #664 in 1930.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #664 in 1930; #7,566 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Carmelita in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,566 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1930, at #664.
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Carmelita: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 14 girls in 2025. Peak: #664 in 1930 · most girls in one year: 140 (1973).
In 2025, 14 US girls were named Carmelita, making it the 7,566th most common girls’ name of the year, down 249 places from #7,317 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 15 girls named Carmelita in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #664, reached in 1930. The most girls given the name in a single year was 140, in 1973. For comparison, it was #9,608 in 2015 and #978 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Carmelita in 137 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1887 with 7 babies. In all, 6,965 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 970 babies named Carmelita.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 113 US girls were named Carmelita; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 17. In 2025 that was about 1 in 114,805 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Carmela (24,511 babies since 1880) and Lita (4,437 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Melita, Carmalita and Carmaleta 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 Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Melita (1,861), Carmalita (415), Carmaleta (90), Carmilita (33), Carmeleta (25), Carmelitta (12), Carmeletta (10).
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 Carmelita 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 | 14 | #7,566 | — | — |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,317 | — | — |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,828 | — | — |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,694 | — | — |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,688 | — | — |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,642 | — | — |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,242 | — | — |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,373 | — | — |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,999 | — | — |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,608 | — | — |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,738 | — | — |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,836 | — | — |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,588 | — | — |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,874 | — | — |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,280 | — | — |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,742 | — | — |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,620 | — | — |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,141 | — | — |
| 2006 | 22 | #5,956 | — | — |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,476 | — | — |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,605 | — | — |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,832 | — | — |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,189 | — | — |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,121 | — | — |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,815 | — | — |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,605 | — | — |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,360 | — | — |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,144 | — | — |
| 1996 | 39 | #3,037 | — | — |
| 1995 | 39 | #2,983 | — | — |
| 1994 | 29 | #3,715 | — | — |
| 1993 | 34 | #3,301 | — | — |
| 1992 | 45 | #2,692 | — | — |
| 1991 | 41 | #2,848 | — | — |
| 1990 | 40 | #2,862 | — | — |
| 1989 | 37 | #2,937 | — | — |
| 1988 | 41 | #2,603 | — | — |
| 1987 | 46 | #2,312 | — | — |
| 1986 | 41 | #2,425 | — | — |
| 1985 | 39 | #2,489 | — | — |
| 1984 | 59 | #1,815 | — | — |
| 1983 | 66 | #1,671 | — | — |
| 1982 | 71 | #1,623 | — | — |
| 1981 | 73 | #1,598 | — | — |
| 1980 | 89 | #1,398 | — | — |
| 1979 | 82 | #1,463 | — | — |
| 1978 | 75 | #1,504 | — | — |
| 1977 | 87 | #1,325 | — | — |
| 1976 | 83 | #1,309 | — | — |
| 1975 | 109 | #1,076 | — | — |
| 1974 | 127 | #970 | — | — |
| 1973 | 140 | #894 | — | — |
| 1972 | 114 | #1,023 | — | — |
| 1971 | 76 | #1,393 | — | — |
| 1970 | 75 | #1,392 | — | — |
| 1969 | 84 | #1,215 | — | — |
| 1968 | 87 | #1,158 | — | — |
| 1967 | 85 | #1,148 | — | — |
| 1966 | 84 | #1,161 | — | — |
| 1965 | 69 | #1,304 | — | — |
| 1964 | 87 | #1,183 | — | — |
| 1963 | 103 | #1,056 | — | — |
| 1962 | 102 | #1,067 | — | — |
| 1961 | 99 | #1,102 | — | — |
| 1960 | 109 | #1,030 | — | — |
| 1959 | 112 | #998 | — | — |
| 1958 | 98 | #1,061 | — | — |
| 1957 | 118 | #947 | — | — |
| 1956 | 108 | #969 | — | — |
| 1955 | 80 | #1,113 | — | — |
| 1954 | 99 | #978 | — | — |
| 1953 | 100 | #945 | — | — |
| 1952 | 91 | #992 | — | — |
| 1951 | 78 | #1,052 | — | — |
| 1950 | 86 | #978 | — | — |
| 1949 | 76 | #1,024 | — | — |
| 1948 | 66 | #1,096 | — | — |
| 1947 | 65 | #1,106 | — | — |
| 1946 | 69 | #1,016 | — | — |
| 1945 | 68 | #915 | — | — |
| 1944 | 68 | #938 | — | — |
| 1943 | 91 | #808 | — | — |
| 1942 | 77 | #888 | — | — |
| 1941 | 76 | #830 | — | — |
| 1940 | 92 | #726 | — | — |
| 1939 | 64 | #879 | — | — |
| 1938 | 62 | #899 | — | — |
| 1937 | 68 | #836 | — | — |
| 1936 | 63 | #855 | — | — |
| 1935 | 76 | #775 | — | — |
| 1934 | 82 | #736 | — | — |
| 1933 | 78 | #746 | — | — |
| 1932 | 83 | #741 | — | — |
| 1931 | 89 | #710 | — | — |
| 1930 | 107 | #664 | — | — |
| 1929 | 69 | #857 | — | — |
| 1928 | 84 | #781 | — | — |
| 1927 | 71 | #885 | — | — |
| 1926 | 80 | #814 | — | — |
| 1925 | 78 | #842 | — | — |
| 1924 | 70 | #906 | — | — |
| 1923 | 55 | #1,017 | — | — |
| 1922 | 56 | #997 | — | — |
| 1921 | 52 | #1,046 | — | — |
| 1920 | 54 | #1,007 | — | — |
| 1919 | 53 | #988 | — | — |
| 1918 | 45 | #1,091 | — | — |
| 1917 | 49 | #1,004 | — | — |
| 1916 | 43 | #1,063 | — | — |
| 1915 | 37 | #1,122 | — | — |
| 1914 | 24 | #1,267 | — | — |
| 1913 | 32 | #949 | — | — |
| 1912 | 30 | #923 | — | — |
| 1911 | 21 | #960 | — | — |
| 1910 | 16 | #1,120 | — | — |
| 1909 | 15 | #1,059 | — | — |
| 1908 | 14 | #1,094 | — | — |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,405 | — | — |
| 1906 | 13 | #1,058 | — | — |
| 1905 | 13 | #1,064 | — | — |
| 1904 | 11 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 1903 | 14 | #933 | — | — |
| 1902 | 11 | #1,080 | — | — |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,147 | — | — |
| 1900 | 18 | #889 | — | — |
| 1899 | 8 | #1,188 | — | — |
| 1898 | 9 | #1,184 | — | — |
| 1897 | 11 | #992 | — | — |
| 1896 | 7 | #1,306 | — | — |
| 1895 | 10 | #1,065 | — | — |
| 1894 | 8 | #1,148 | — | — |
| 1893 | 10 | #964 | — | — |
| 1892 | 8 | #1,098 | — | — |
| 1891 | 12 | #802 | — | — |
| 1890 | 7 | #1,114 | — | — |
| 1889 | 9 | #912 | — | — |
| 1887 | 7 | #960 | — | — |
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).