Carmelita
Carmelita was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,564 among girls’ names; 6,965 Americans have been recorded with it since 1887 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,370 Americans named Carmelita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (63% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 44 and 69.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carmelita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Carmelita?
#7,564 among girls’ names, 2025
Carmelita rose from #9,603 in 2015 to #7,564 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.2 to 8.7 per million.
140 babies in 1973, the peak
Carmelita peaked in 1973, when 140 girls were given it, #894 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,564 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,313 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,823 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,689 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,684 | 10.5 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,637 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,238 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,369 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,996 | 6.8 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,603 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (137)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 15 | #7,735 | 8.4 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,832 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,586 | 13.6 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,870 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,277 | 9.6 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,740 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,616 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,137 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 22 | #5,954 | 11.6 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,471 | 12.4 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,601 | 12.0 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,827 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,184 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,117 | 16.7 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,810 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,600 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,357 | 20.4 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,141 | 14.9 |
| 1996 | 39 | #3,032 | 22.2 |
| 1995 | 39 | #2,978 | 22.2 |
| 1994 | 29 | #3,710 | 16.2 |
| 1993 | 34 | #3,296 | 18.8 |
| 1992 | 45 | #2,687 | 24.4 |
| 1991 | 41 | #2,842 | 21.9 |
| 1990 | 40 | #2,857 | 21.1 |
| 1989 | 37 | #2,931 | 20.1 |
| 1988 | 41 | #2,598 | 23.0 |
| 1987 | 46 | #2,310 | 26.5 |
| 1986 | 41 | #2,424 | 23.9 |
| 1985 | 39 | #2,488 | 22.7 |
| 1984 | 59 | #1,815 | 35.0 |
| 1983 | 66 | #1,671 | 39.5 |
| 1982 | 71 | #1,623 | 41.9 |
| 1981 | 73 | #1,598 | 43.8 |
| 1980 | 89 | #1,398 | 53.6 |
| 1979 | 82 | #1,463 | 51.1 |
| 1978 | 75 | #1,504 | 49.0 |
| 1977 | 87 | #1,325 | 56.7 |
| 1976 | 83 | #1,309 | 56.7 |
| 1975 | 109 | #1,076 | 74.8 |
| 1974 | 127 | #970 | 86.5 |
| 1973 | 140 | #894 | 96.0 |
| 1972 | 114 | #1,023 | 74.9 |
| 1971 | 76 | #1,393 | 45.7 |
| 1970 | 75 | #1,392 | 42.9 |
| 1969 | 84 | #1,215 | 49.8 |
| 1968 | 87 | #1,158 | 53.0 |
| 1967 | 85 | #1,148 | 51.5 |
| 1966 | 84 | #1,161 | 49.6 |
| 1965 | 69 | #1,304 | 39.1 |
| 1964 | 87 | #1,183 | 45.9 |
| 1963 | 103 | #1,056 | 53.4 |
| 1962 | 102 | #1,067 | 51.9 |
| 1961 | 99 | #1,102 | 49.0 |
| 1960 | 109 | #1,029 | 53.9 |
| 1959 | 112 | #997 | 55.4 |
| 1958 | 98 | #1,060 | 48.7 |
| 1957 | 118 | #946 | 57.7 |
| 1956 | 108 | #968 | 53.8 |
| 1955 | 80 | #1,112 | 40.9 |
| 1954 | 99 | #977 | 51.0 |
| 1953 | 100 | #944 | 53.2 |
| 1952 | 91 | #991 | 49.1 |
| 1951 | 78 | #1,051 | 43.3 |
| 1950 | 86 | #977 | 50.2 |
| 1949 | 76 | #1,023 | 44.4 |
| 1948 | 66 | #1,095 | 38.9 |
| 1947 | 65 | #1,105 | 36.7 |
| 1946 | 69 | #1,015 | 43.9 |
| 1945 | 68 | #915 | 52.0 |
| 1944 | 68 | #938 | 51.2 |
| 1943 | 91 | #808 | 65.2 |
| 1942 | 77 | #888 | 57.0 |
| 1941 | 76 | #830 | 62.9 |
| 1940 | 92 | #726 | 80.5 |
| 1939 | 64 | #879 | 58.4 |
| 1938 | 62 | #899 | 56.2 |
| 1937 | 68 | #836 | 63.9 |
| 1936 | 63 | #855 | 60.6 |
| 1935 | 76 | #775 | 72.5 |
| 1934 | 82 | #736 | 78.5 |
| 1933 | 78 | #746 | 77.4 |
| 1932 | 83 | #741 | 77.8 |
| 1931 | 89 | #710 | 83.6 |
| 1930 | 107 | #664 | 95.0 |
| 1929 | 69 | #857 | 61.8 |
| 1928 | 84 | #781 | 72.8 |
| 1927 | 71 | #885 | 59.5 |
| 1926 | 80 | #814 | 67.5 |
| 1925 | 78 | #842 | 64.1 |
| 1924 | 70 | #906 | 56.1 |
| 1923 | 55 | #1,017 | 45.6 |
| 1922 | 56 | #997 | 46.6 |
| 1921 | 52 | #1,046 | 42.2 |
| 1920 | 54 | #1,007 | 45.1 |
| 1919 | 53 | #988 | 46.9 |
| 1918 | 45 | #1,091 | 38.9 |
| 1917 | 49 | #1,004 | 45.3 |
| 1916 | 43 | #1,063 | 41.2 |
| 1915 | 37 | #1,122 | 37.6 |
| 1914 | 24 | #1,267 | 31.5 |
| 1913 | 32 | #949 | 51.2 |
| 1912 | 30 | #923 | 53.8 |
| 1911 | 21 | #960 | 50.2 |
| 1910 | 16 | #1,120 | 40.4 |
| 1909 | 15 | #1,059 | 43.2 |
| 1908 | 14 | #1,094 | 41.9 |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,405 | 28.3 |
| 1906 | 13 | #1,058 | 44.0 |
| 1905 | 13 | #1,064 | 44.6 |
| 1904 | 11 | #1,104 | 39.9 |
| 1903 | 14 | #933 | 53.4 |
| 1902 | 11 | #1,080 | 41.7 |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,147 | 37.6 |
| 1900 | 18 | #889 | 60.0 |
| 1899 | 8 | #1,187 | 34.3 |
| 1898 | 9 | #1,184 | 34.8 |
| 1897 | 11 | #992 | 47.0 |
| 1896 | 7 | #1,306 | 29.4 |
| 1895 | 10 | #1,065 | 42.8 |
| 1894 | 8 | #1,148 | 35.9 |
| 1893 | 10 | #964 | 47.0 |
| 1892 | 8 | #1,098 | 37.7 |
| 1891 | 12 | #802 | 64.7 |
| 1890 | 7 | #1,114 | 36.8 |
| 1889 | 9 | #912 | 50.5 |
| 1887 | 7 | #960 | 48.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Carmelita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Carmelita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 137 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Carmelita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carmelita, and how old are they?
4,370 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 63% of the 6,965 Americans ever recorded as Carmelita. The median Carmelita alive today is 56 years old; half are between 44 and 69.
The 2020 Census counted 7,909 people named Carmelita (7,895 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,753 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 402 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,370 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,360 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 718 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 359 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 153 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Carmelita born?
The states with the most babies named Carmelita are California, Texas and Illinois, with 62% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,154 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Texas | 429 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 311 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 258 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Arizona | 185 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| New Mexico | 185 | not ranked | 4.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 125 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 63 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 47 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Oklahoma | 46 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Carmelita is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Carmelita is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 1910 it was given 4.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Carmelita with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 7,538 babies since 1880, Carmelita is the most given (92% of them).
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 Carmelita
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 Carmelita and names like it
- Compare Carmelita and CarmalitaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sCarmelita peaked in 1973.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carmelita since 1910.
- The top names of 1973The year the most babies were named Carmelita.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Carmelita alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.