Carmel — #4768 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Carmel

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,190 babies named Carmel between 1888 and 2024, spanning 137 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Carmel currently holds the #4768 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1962, when 155 babies received it in a single year. Carmel is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,382 additional births since 1906.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carmel performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 1,218 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Carmel shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 817 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Carmel in 27 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carmel in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 7,190 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.