Carmon — unisex name

What the Data Says About Carmon

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,586 babies named Carmon between 1900 and 2019, spanning 120 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Carmon currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1968, when 47 babies received it in a single year. Carmon is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,250 additional births since 1898.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carmon performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 297 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Carmon shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 12 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Kentucky and Tennessee. In total, SSA state-level files list Carmon in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carmon 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 1,586 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.