Carmi
Carmi is given to both girls and boys: 6 girls and 9 boys were given it in 2025 (#13,523 among girls’ names and #8,368 among boys’, #12,426 among all names counting both); 129 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carmi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Carmi?
#13,523 among girls’ names, 2025
Carmi entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #13,523 in 2025.
15 babies in 2025, the peak
Carmi peaked in 2025, when 15 babies were given it (6 girls, #13,523 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 6 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,523 | 9 | #8,368 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,809 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 8 | #9,051 | |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,767 | 5 | #12,667 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,132 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,502 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,474 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,082 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,721 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,706 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 6 | #5,934 | 5 | #4,122 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,631 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,488 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,066 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 5 | #3,880 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 6 | #3,766 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 7 | #3,459 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 5 | #4,270 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 5 | #3,988 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Carmi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 129 Americans recorded as Carmi, 57% are girls and 43% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Carmi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carmi, and how old are they?
An estimated 98 Americans named Carmi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 350 people named Carmi (238 women and girls, 112 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 61 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Carmi rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 12,978 babies since 1880, Carmi is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 159 babies (9.4%), the second 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.
More about Carmi and names like it
- Compare Carmi and KarmaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCarmi peaked in 2025.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Carmi.
- Names starting with CMost given first.