Carmelita — #7582 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Carmelita

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,950 babies named Carmelita between 1887 and 2024, spanning 138 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Carmelita currently holds the #7582 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1973, when 140 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carmelita performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 970 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Carmelita shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,154 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Carmelita in 26 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carmelita 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 6,950 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.