Karmelo
Karmelo was given to 114 boys in 2025, #1,523 among boys’ names; 1,391 Americans have been recorded with it since 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,380 Americans named Karmelo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karmelo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Karmelo mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Karmelo is “a male given name, variant of Carmelo.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Karmelo?
#1,523 among boys’ names, 2025
Karmelo rose from #2,662 in 2015 to #1,523 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 24.0 to 66.7 per million.
121 babies in 2021, the peak
Karmelo peaked in 2021, when 121 boys were given it, #1,486 among boys’ names. The 114 births of 2025 are 94% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 114 | #1,523 | 66.7 |
| 2024 | 95 | #1,746 | 55.1 |
| 2023 | 73 | #2,054 | 42.7 |
| 2022 | 93 | #1,775 | 53.3 |
| 2021 | 121 | #1,486 | 69.2 |
| 2020 | 89 | #1,739 | 51.6 |
| 2019 | 76 | #1,944 | 42.4 |
| 2018 | 66 | #2,128 | 36.3 |
| 2017 | 55 | #2,366 | 29.7 |
| 2016 | 42 | #2,859 | 22.1 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #2,662 | 24.0 |
| 2014 | 65 | #2,130 | 33.8 |
| 2013 | 92 | #1,653 | 48.6 |
| 2012 | 86 | #1,747 | 45.3 |
| 2011 | 83 | #1,763 | 43.7 |
| 2010 | 44 | #2,762 | 22.9 |
| 2009 | 41 | #2,926 | 20.7 |
| 2008 | 30 | #3,601 | 14.7 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,898 | 9.2 |
| 2006 | 19 | #4,775 | 9.2 |
| 2005 | 24 | #3,872 | 12.0 |
| 2004 | 13 | #5,977 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,833 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Karmelo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karmelo has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls 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 Karmelo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karmelo, and how old are they?
1,380 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,391 Americans ever recorded as Karmelo. The median Karmelo alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 604 people named Karmelo (3 women and girls, 601 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 822 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 360 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,020 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Karmelo born?
The states with the most babies named Karmelo are Florida, Texas and Georgia, with 56% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Karmelo with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 17,441 babies since 1880, Karmelo is the third most given (8.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 114 of their 570 babies (20%), 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Karmelo
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 Karmelo and names like it
- Compare Karmelo and CarmeloBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKarmelo peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karmelo since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Karmelo.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Karmelo alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.