Carmello
Carmello was given to 44 boys in 2025, #2,844 among boys’ names; 2,175 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,820 Americans named Carmello and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 10 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carmello by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Carmello?
#2,844 among boys’ names, 2025
Carmello fell from #2,116 in 2015 to #2,844 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 34.4 to 25.8 per million.
147 babies in 2011, the peak
Carmello peaked in 2011, when 147 boys were given it, #1,200 among boys’ names. The 44 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44 | #2,844 | 25.8 |
| 2024 | 58 | #2,396 | 33.7 |
| 2023 | 51 | #2,584 | 29.8 |
| 2022 | 52 | #2,593 | 29.8 |
| 2021 | 52 | #2,529 | 29.7 |
| 2020 | 45 | #2,733 | 26.1 |
| 2019 | 48 | #2,663 | 26.8 |
| 2018 | 41 | #2,898 | 22.6 |
| 2017 | 48 | #2,602 | 25.9 |
| 2016 | 67 | #2,091 | 35.3 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 66 | #2,116 | 34.4 |
| 2014 | 107 | #1,506 | 55.7 |
| 2013 | 119 | #1,406 | 62.9 |
| 2012 | 130 | #1,316 | 68.5 |
| 2011 | 147 | #1,200 | 77.4 |
| 2010 | 122 | #1,378 | 63.6 |
| 2009 | 99 | #1,604 | 49.9 |
| 2008 | 84 | #1,777 | 41.2 |
| 2007 | 111 | #1,448 | 53.5 |
| 2006 | 84 | #1,686 | 40.9 |
| 2005 | 81 | #1,660 | 40.6 |
| 2004 | 71 | #1,760 | 35.8 |
| 2003 | 24 | #3,634 | 12.1 |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,829 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 6 | #7,934 | 3.2 |
| 1993 | 6 | #7,759 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,544 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,498 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,061 | 2.5 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,198 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,506 | 3.7 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,002 | 3.4 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,112 | 2.3 |
| 1956 | 9 | #2,821 | 4.3 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,797 | 4.4 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,745 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 5 | #3,792 | 2.7 |
| 1944 | 6 | #3,153 | 4.4 |
| 1942 | 7 | #2,969 | 5.1 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,525 | 4.3 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,164 | 5.4 |
| 1935 | 5 | #3,723 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,146 | 11.6 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,046 | 7.1 |
| 1932 | 8 | #2,880 | 7.7 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,344 | 10.6 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,317 | 10.9 |
| 1929 | 9 | #2,797 | 8.4 |
| 1928 | 10 | #2,688 | 9.0 |
| 1927 | 9 | #2,940 | 8.0 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,591 | 9.9 |
| 1925 | 10 | #2,774 | 9.0 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,057 | 14.1 |
| 1923 | 23 | #1,601 | 21.0 |
| 1922 | 21 | #1,703 | 19.3 |
| 1921 | 17 | #1,991 | 15.4 |
| 1920 | 6 | #3,886 | 5.6 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,280 | 13.3 |
| 1918 | 10 | #2,718 | 9.9 |
| 1917 | 22 | #1,539 | 23.8 |
| 1916 | 15 | #1,969 | 16.9 |
| 1915 | 20 | #1,562 | 23.6 |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,698 | 21.4 |
| 1913 | 12 | #1,593 | 23.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Carmello a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Carmello has been given almost only to boys: 21 girls in 64 years of records.
Girls and boys named Carmello: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carmello, and how old are they?
1,820 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 84% of the 2,175 Americans ever recorded as Carmello. The median Carmello alive today is 14 years old; half are between 10 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,570 people named Carmello (39 women and girls, 1,531 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,554 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 13 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 21 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 10 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 34 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 947 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 792 |
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 Carmello born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,022 | 0.3× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,667 | 1.0× |
Where Carmello is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Carmello is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1913 it was given 1.5 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 boys’ 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 Carmello with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Carmello?
Carmello is a less common spelling of Carmelo: SSA has recorded 2,175 Carmello and 13,173 Carmelo since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 17,441 babies since 1880, Carmello is the second most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 44 of their 570 babies (7.7%), the third most given that year.
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 Carmello
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 Carmello and names like it
- Compare Carmello and CarmeloBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCarmello peaked in 2011.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carmello since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Carmello.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Carmello alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.