Carmella
Carmella was given to 174 girls in 2025, #1,285 among girls’ names; 20,653 Americans have been recorded with it since 1891 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,360 Americans named Carmella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (45% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 15 and 68.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carmella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Carmella?
#1,285 among girls’ names, 2025
Carmella rose from #1,496 in 2015 to #1,285 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.09 to 0.11 per 1,000.
554 babies in 1922, the peak
Carmella peaked in 1922, when 554 girls were given it, #276 among girls’ names. The 174 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 174 | #1,285 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 170 | #1,343 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 158 | #1,415 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 176 | #1,338 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 147 | #1,462 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 158 | #1,375 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 174 | #1,315 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 158 | #1,414 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 162 | #1,409 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 148 | #1,527 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (134)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 153 | #1,496 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 158 | #1,438 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 149 | #1,488 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 172 | #1,360 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 140 | #1,564 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 139 | #1,576 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 147 | #1,539 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 149 | #1,549 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 139 | #1,606 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 143 | #1,532 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 130 | #1,565 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 116 | #1,667 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 93 | #1,950 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 66 | #2,417 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 80 | #2,072 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,949 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 48 | #2,815 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,843 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 38 | #3,110 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,850 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 39 | #2,979 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,543 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 37 | #3,110 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 60 | #2,219 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 59 | #2,211 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 72 | #1,924 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 46 | #2,479 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 53 | #2,155 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 71 | #1,703 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 76 | #1,572 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 73 | #1,620 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 73 | #1,554 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 68 | #1,631 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 84 | #1,437 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 82 | #1,480 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 64 | #1,736 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 77 | #1,517 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 70 | #1,559 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 54 | #1,858 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 82 | #1,316 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 80 | #1,342 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 70 | #1,438 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 96 | #1,145 | 0.07 |
| 1972 | 107 | #1,074 | 0.07 |
| 1971 | 108 | #1,106 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 135 | #940 | 0.08 |
| 1969 | 127 | #943 | 0.08 |
| 1968 | 133 | #893 | 0.08 |
| 1967 | 144 | #843 | 0.09 |
| 1966 | 113 | #955 | 0.07 |
| 1965 | 143 | #832 | 0.08 |
| 1964 | 152 | #845 | 0.08 |
| 1963 | 144 | #874 | 0.07 |
| 1962 | 135 | #911 | 0.07 |
| 1961 | 152 | #863 | 0.08 |
| 1960 | 165 | #805 | 0.08 |
| 1959 | 131 | #914 | 0.06 |
| 1958 | 163 | #783 | 0.08 |
| 1957 | 152 | #821 | 0.07 |
| 1956 | 160 | #778 | 0.08 |
| 1955 | 151 | #782 | 0.08 |
| 1954 | 123 | #851 | 0.06 |
| 1953 | 144 | #762 | 0.08 |
| 1952 | 122 | #824 | 0.07 |
| 1951 | 161 | #689 | 0.09 |
| 1950 | 158 | #674 | 0.09 |
| 1949 | 156 | #664 | 0.09 |
| 1948 | 129 | #746 | 0.08 |
| 1947 | 184 | #618 | 0.10 |
| 1946 | 133 | #699 | 0.08 |
| 1945 | 111 | #707 | 0.08 |
| 1944 | 133 | #635 | 0.10 |
| 1943 | 154 | #605 | 0.11 |
| 1942 | 182 | #550 | 0.13 |
| 1941 | 168 | #545 | 0.14 |
| 1940 | 191 | #500 | 0.17 |
| 1939 | 170 | #512 | 0.16 |
| 1938 | 193 | #478 | 0.17 |
| 1937 | 196 | #468 | 0.18 |
| 1936 | 189 | #467 | 0.18 |
| 1935 | 219 | #436 | 0.21 |
| 1934 | 245 | #419 | 0.23 |
| 1933 | 261 | #398 | 0.26 |
| 1932 | 274 | #395 | 0.26 |
| 1931 | 287 | #383 | 0.27 |
| 1930 | 358 | #353 | 0.32 |
| 1929 | 407 | #323 | 0.36 |
| 1928 | 399 | #334 | 0.35 |
| 1927 | 495 | #300 | 0.42 |
| 1926 | 500 | #298 | 0.42 |
| 1925 | 482 | #303 | 0.40 |
| 1924 | 514 | #295 | 0.41 |
| 1923 | 450 | #304 | 0.37 |
| 1922 | 554 | #276 | 0.46 |
| 1921 | 496 | #295 | 0.40 |
| 1920 | 464 | #302 | 0.39 |
| 1919 | 442 | #300 | 0.39 |
| 1918 | 455 | #301 | 0.39 |
| 1917 | 423 | #301 | 0.39 |
| 1916 | 412 | #297 | 0.39 |
| 1915 | 371 | #303 | 0.38 |
| 1914 | 245 | #339 | 0.32 |
| 1913 | 186 | #355 | 0.30 |
| 1912 | 143 | #384 | 0.26 |
| 1911 | 97 | #407 | 0.23 |
| 1910 | 89 | #417 | 0.22 |
| 1909 | 67 | #458 | 0.19 |
| 1908 | 75 | #417 | 0.22 |
| 1907 | 47 | #521 | 0.15 |
| 1906 | 57 | #454 | 0.19 |
| 1905 | 42 | #529 | 0.14 |
| 1904 | 44 | #493 | 0.16 |
| 1903 | 37 | #530 | 0.14 |
| 1902 | 30 | #601 | 0.11 |
| 1901 | 20 | #724 | 0.08 |
| 1900 | 25 | #728 | 0.08 |
| 1899 | 23 | #645 | 0.10 |
| 1898 | 18 | #794 | 0.07 |
| 1897 | 12 | #936 | 0.05 |
| 1896 | 13 | #907 | 0.05 |
| 1895 | 9 | #1,133 | 0.04 |
| 1894 | 13 | #859 | 0.06 |
| 1893 | 11 | #911 | 0.05 |
| 1891 | 8 | #1,021 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Carmella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Carmella has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 134 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Carmella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carmella, and how old are they?
9,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 45% of the 20,653 Americans ever recorded as Carmella. The median Carmella alive today is 46 years old; half are between 15 and 68.
The 2020 Census counted 9,487 people named Carmella (9,452 women and girls, 35 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,704 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 985 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,180 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,480 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 938 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,660 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,070 |
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 Carmella born?
The states with the most babies named Carmella are New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, with 60% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 4,106 | #991 | 2.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 3,419 | #523 | 2.5× |
| New Jersey | 1,931 | #585 | 3.2× |
| Illinois | 1,615 | #1,275 | 1.6× |
| Ohio | 1,265 | #815 | 1.3× |
| Massachusetts | 876 | #781 | 1.4× |
| Connecticut | 607 | #481 | 2.3× |
| California | 578 | #1,595 | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 269 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 198 | #1,344 | 0.4× |
Where Carmella is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Carmella is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1910 it was given 3.2 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 Carmella 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 47,488 babies since 1880, Carmella is the second most given (43% of them). In 2025 it was given to 174 of their 388 babies (45%), again the second most given.
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 Carmella
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 Carmella and names like it
- Compare Carmella and CarmelaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sCarmella peaked in 1922.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carmella since 1910.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Carmella.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Carmella alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.