Carmelia
Carmelia was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 715 Americans have been recorded with it between 1912 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carmelia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Carmelia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,578, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
24 babies in 1960, the peak
Carmelia peaked in 1960, when 24 girls were given it, #2,441 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | #15,578 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,156 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,745 | 4.1 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,657 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,057 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,142 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,971 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,870 | 2.9 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,787 | 2.8 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,622 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 12 | #6,593 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,502 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 12 | #5,971 | 6.9 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,652 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,452 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,583 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,172 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,716 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 11 | #5,968 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,797 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,033 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,579 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,830 | 11.6 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,620 | 8.9 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,755 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,604 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,146 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,481 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,098 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,333 | 10.1 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,243 | 6.7 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,097 | 10.3 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,331 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,767 | 6.8 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,096 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 17 | #3,075 | 8.8 |
| 1962 | 20 | #2,742 | 10.2 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,810 | 5.9 |
| 1960 | 24 | #2,441 | 11.9 |
| 1959 | 22 | #2,464 | 10.9 |
| 1958 | 10 | #3,965 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,244 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 10 | #3,944 | 5.0 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,416 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,722 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,112 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,063 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 8 | #3,999 | 4.7 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,739 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,246 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,733 | 5.1 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,496 | 3.8 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,790 | 5.2 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,615 | 5.8 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,180 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,887 | 8.7 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,295 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,455 | 6.9 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,313 | 7.5 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,417 | 4.7 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,707 | 6.2 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,133 | 5.4 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,908 | 4.2 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,897 | 9.3 |
| 1925 | 19 | #2,036 | 15.6 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,436 | 7.2 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,161 | 8.3 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,801 | 10.0 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,652 | 10.5 |
| 1920 | 16 | #2,288 | 13.4 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,036 | 8.8 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,576 | 11.1 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,391 | 12.4 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,933 | 9.1 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,186 | 14.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Carmelia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Carmelia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 75 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Carmelia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carmelia, and how old are they?
An estimated 461 Americans named Carmelia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (65% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 43 and 66. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 815 people named Carmelia (813 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 493 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 47,488 babies since 1880, Carmelia is the third most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 388 babies recorded by SSA was a Carmelia (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Carmelia
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Carmelia and names like it
- Compare Carmelia and CarmelaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sCarmelia peaked in 1960.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carmelia since 1910.
- The top names of 1960The year the most babies were named Carmelia.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Carmelia alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.