Carmilla
Carmilla was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,524 among girls’ names; 451 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carmilla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Carmilla mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Carmilla is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Carmilla?
#13,524 among girls’ names, 2025
Carmilla rose from #14,862 in 2015 to #13,524 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.4 to 3.7 per million.
15 babies in 1921, the peak
Carmilla peaked in 1921, when 15 girls were given it, #2,394 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 40% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,524 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,048 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,751 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,404 | 4.9 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,491 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,754 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,862 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,067 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,052 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,022 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 5 | #13,281 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,398 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,448 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,665 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,723 | 7.0 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,491 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,385 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,639 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,594 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,399 | 5.0 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,687 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,696 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,579 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,944 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,912 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,147 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,599 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,100 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,506 | 4.7 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,072 | 6.7 |
| 1966 | 6 | #5,876 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,643 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,056 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,581 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,915 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,359 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,486 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 7 | #4,971 | 3.4 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,202 | 4.5 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,417 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,763 | 2.7 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,172 | 4.3 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,505 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,330 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,820 | 3.4 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,123 | 4.5 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,708 | 3.7 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,757 | 5.8 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,501 | 4.7 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,664 | 4.5 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,264 | 5.2 |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,087 | 8.4 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,754 | 9.9 |
| 1922 | 10 | #3,187 | 8.3 |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,394 | 12.2 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,510 | 7.1 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,691 | 4.6 |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,064 | 8.6 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,849 | 6.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Carmilla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Carmilla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Carmilla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carmilla, and how old are they?
An estimated 322 Americans named Carmilla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (72% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 38 and 62. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 340 people named Carmilla (336 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 305 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 47,269 babies since 1880, Carmilla is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 380 babies (1.6%), the fourth 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 Carmilla and names like it
- Compare Carmilla and CarmelaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sCarmilla peaked in 1921.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Carmilla.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Carmilla alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.