Karmella
Karmella was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,673 among girls’ names; 521 Americans have been recorded with it since 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karmella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karmella?
#7,673 among girls’ names, 2025
Karmella fell from #5,745 in 2015 to #7,673 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.9 to 8.7 per million.
32 babies in 2012, the peak
Karmella peaked in 2012, when 32 girls were given it, #4,546 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,673 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,278 | 11.7 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,057 | 12.5 |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,723 | 13.4 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,650 | 13.4 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,945 | 16.1 |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,096 | 15.5 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,687 | 12.9 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,243 | 14.5 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,415 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,745 | 12.9 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,241 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,566 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,546 | 18.2 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,454 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,873 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,623 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,769 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,302 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,239 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,987 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,068 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,102 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,736 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,240 | 2.8 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,332 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,734 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,470 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,107 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,584 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,024 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,120 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,598 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,365 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,597 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,256 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,804 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karmella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karmella has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karmella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karmella, and how old are they?
An estimated 514 Americans named Karmella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 390 people named Karmella (385 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 400 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
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 Karmella?
Karmella is a less common spelling of Carmela: SSA has recorded 521 Karmella and 24,511 Carmela since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 47,488 babies since 1880, Karmella is the fourth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 388 babies (3.6%), the third 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 Karmella
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 Karmella and names like it
- Compare Karmella and CarmelaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKarmella peaked in 2012.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Karmella.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Karmella alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.