Carmelo — #698 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Carmelo

The Social Security Administration has registered 12,789 babies named Carmelo between 1904 and 2024, spanning 121 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Carmelo currently holds the #698 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2013, when 514 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carmelo performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 3,774 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Carmelo shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 3,324 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Carmelo in 33 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carmelo 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 12,789 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.