Carmetta — girls' name
23 babies named Carmetta in U.S. Social Security records since 1919, with the highest year being 1919. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
35% of everyone ever named Carmetta was born in this single decade.
8 babies were named Carmetta in 1919 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Carmetta
The Social Security Administration has registered 23 babies named Carmetta between 1919 and 1970, spanning 52 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Carmetta currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1970. The name reached its historical peak in 1919, when 8 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Carmetta performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 8 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Carmetta shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Carmetta 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 23 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.
Carmetta at a glance
Last recorded 1970Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Carmetta popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1970–1919
- Peak year (1919)
- 8
- Annual births at peak — across 52 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1970.
23 total births across 52 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1919 with 8 births in a single year.
Carmetta by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1910s
- 8 births that decade — 35% of Carmetta's all-time total
Carmetta decade highlights
- Peak decade 8 births
- Runner-up 5 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1910s was Carmetta's strongest decade
8 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 35% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1919–1970 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.