Carmelia — girls' name

What the Data Says About Carmelia

The Social Security Administration has registered 715 babies named Carmelia between 1912 and 2020, spanning 109 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Carmelia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 1960, when 24 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carmelia performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 143 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Carmelia shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 15 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Carmelia in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carmelia 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 715 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.