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Carmelina

#5,589 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Carmela

Carmelina has been given to 1,494 babies in the U.S. since 1910. In 2025 it ranked #5,589 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1926, with 39 recorded.

Babies named Carmelina, 2025

1 in 151,000

Carmelina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Carmelina: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Carmela

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Carmelina means

Carmelina is a diminutive of Carmela.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Carmelina → Carmela → Carmela → Carmen. The family’s meaning is “song, poem”, recorded in Spanish with the source elements carmen.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Carmela.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,494 girls were recorded with the name Carmelina between 1910 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 39 in 1926; its best national rank was #1,245 in 1926.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,631 in 2020 to #5,589 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,087 in 2015 to #5,589 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Carmelina?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 73,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,589
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Carmelina sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carmelina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Carmelinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Carmelina was born before 1965 — so the typical Carmelina is around 60 today.

Median birth year
1965
About 60 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
19.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
22.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
893
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 19.2% of all recorded uses (287).

Is Carmelina rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+858
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,042
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,498
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.57×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
56.4%
Peak was 1926 (39)
Years since peak
99
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,245
1926

Spellings of Carmelina

Carmelina is not the most common spelling — Carolina is, with 43.2% against Carmelina's 1.3%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Carmelina is used

Across 1910–2025, Carmelina was most concentrated in Connecticut — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 139,612 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Connecticut1 in 16,667
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5New Jersey1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Carmelina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Carmelina around the world

Where Carmelina ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1923–1981
    #2,707
    in 1981
  • Canada
    1991–2012
    #3,249
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    1944–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Carmelina by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,589
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,042
Best rank ever
#1,245
1926
Peak year
1926
39 that year
First recorded
1910
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,494
Count in 2025
22

Names similar to Carmelina

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

CarminaCarlinaCaralinaCarolinaCarinaCarriganCaralineCarrinaCarringtonKatherinaKhristinaCarolanneCarmelitaCarlenaCarlitaKatharinaCarolyneMichelinaEkaterinaCaridadCarolynneCartinaAugustinaWilhemina

Sibling names for Carmelina

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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