Karmela
Karmela was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,399 among girls’ names; 219 Americans have been recorded with it since 1965 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karmela by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karmela?
#11,399 among girls’ names, 2025
Karmela fell from #9,215 in 2015 to #11,399 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.7 to 5.0 per million.
15 babies in 2019, the peak
Karmela peaked in 2019, when 15 girls were given it, #7,526 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 53% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,399 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,232 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,288 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,270 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,662 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,526 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,991 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,136 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,305 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,215 | 6.7 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 13 | #8,711 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,306 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,729 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,738 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,946 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,132 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,093 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,272 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,424 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,067 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,015 | 2.7 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,255 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,967 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karmela a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karmela has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karmela: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karmela, and how old are they?
An estimated 216 Americans named Karmela and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 309 people named Karmela (303 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 165 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times 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).
How common is the spelling Karmela?
Karmela is a less common spelling of Carmela: SSA has recorded 219 Karmela and 24,511 Carmela since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 46,619 babies since 1880, Karmela is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 382 babies (2.1%), 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Karmela
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Karmela and names like it
- Compare Karmela and CarmelaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKarmela peaked in 2019.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Karmela.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Karmela alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.