Carmela
Carmela is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 208 births. Its best rank was 266th, in 1923.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2080.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 1923586 births
- Best rank
- #266in 1923
- Since 1882
- 24,318people given the name
The story in the numbers
24,318 girls have been named Carmela in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1923, with 586 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1936, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 90 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Carmela | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 37 | |
| 1890s | 280 | |
| 1900s | 815 | |
| 1910s | 3,461 | |
| 1920s | 5,430 | |
| 1930s | 2,885 | |
| 1940s | 1,731 | |
| 1950s | 1,720 | |
| 1960s | 2,090 | |
| 1970s | 1,400 | |
| 1980s | 895 | |
| 1990s | 674 | |
| 2000s | 1,005 | |
| 2010s | 1,130 | |
| 2020s | 765 |
In 1923, its biggest year
Carmela was the 266th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1923 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Betty. See all of 1923.
Names that rose and fell with Carmela
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Marcellapeak 1922
- Lorainepeak 1922
- Vernicepeak 1923
- Clementinapeak 1925
- Carmellapeak 1922
- Lorenepeak 1920
- Concettapeak 1924
- Laverapeak 1925
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.