Meaning not yet researched.
Karmelo: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 114 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,486 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,486 in 2021; #1,523 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Karmelo in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,523 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #1,486.
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Karmelo: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 114 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,486 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 121 (2021).
In 2025, 114 US boys were named Karmelo, making it the 1,523rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 223 places from #1,746 in 2024. That is 19 more than the 95 boys named Karmelo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,486, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 121. For comparison, it was #2,663 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Karmelo in 23 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2003 with 5 babies. In all, 1,391 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 655 babies named Karmelo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 824 US boys were named Karmelo; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 121. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,983 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Karmelo ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #868 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Carmelo (13,173 babies since 1880) and Carmello (2,175 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Karmelo in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 17 | #868 | — |
| Georgia | 10 | #887 | — |
| Illinois | 8 | #975 | — |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,050 | — |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,070 | — |
| Texas | 11 | #1,609 | — |
| California | 9 | #1,755 | #2,423 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 114 | #1,523 |
| 2024 | — | — | 95 | #1,746 |
| 2023 | — | — | 73 | #2,055 |
| 2022 | — | — | 93 | #1,775 |
| 2021 | — | — | 121 | #1,486 |
| 2020 | — | — | 89 | #1,739 |
| 2019 | — | — | 76 | #1,945 |
| 2018 | — | — | 66 | #2,129 |
| 2017 | — | — | 55 | #2,367 |
| 2016 | — | — | 42 | #2,860 |
| 2015 | — | — | 46 | #2,663 |
| 2014 | — | — | 65 | #2,131 |
| 2013 | — | — | 92 | #1,654 |
| 2012 | — | — | 86 | #1,748 |
| 2011 | — | — | 83 | #1,764 |
| 2010 | — | — | 44 | #2,763 |
| 2009 | — | — | 41 | #2,927 |
| 2008 | — | — | 30 | #3,604 |
| 2007 | — | — | 19 | #4,900 |
| 2006 | — | — | 19 | #4,779 |
| 2005 | — | — | 24 | #3,876 |
| 2004 | — | — | 13 | #5,983 |
| 2003 | — | — | 5 | #11,841 |
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).