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Carmelita

#7,564 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Carmel

Carmelita has been given to 6,965 babies in the U.S. since 1887. In 2025 it ranked #7,564 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1973, with 140 recorded.

Babies named Carmelita, 2025

1 in 237,000

Carmelita 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Carmelita: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Carmel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Carmelita means

Carmelita is a diminutive of Carmel.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Carmelita → Carmel. The family’s meaning is “vineyard of El/God”, recorded in English with the source elements karmél.

Origin, language, and formation

Carmelita is used in Cebuano.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Carmel.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,965 girls were recorded with the name Carmelita between 1887 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 140 in 1973; its best national rank was #664 in 1930.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,684 in 2020 to #7,564 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,603 in 2015 to #7,564 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 Carmelita?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 115,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,564
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Carmelita 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carmelita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Carmelitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Carmelita was born before 1957 — so the typical Carmelita is around 68 today.

Median birth year
1957
About 68 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
13.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,193
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 13.9% of all recorded uses (970).

Is Carmelita 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
−251
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−880
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,039
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.27×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.0%
Peak was 1973 (140)
Years since peak
52
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#664
1930

Spellings of Carmelita

Carmelita is not the most common spelling — Carmela is, with 41.8% against Carmelita's 11.9%.

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 Carmelita is used

Across 1910–2025, Carmelita was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 4,545 girls, against 1 in 40,596 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

022 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 4,545
  2. 2Arizona1 in 10,000
  3. 3California1 in 14,286
  4. 4Illinois1 in 25,000
  5. 5Hawaii1 in 33,333
  6. 6Texas1 in 33,333
  7. 7Colorado1 in 50,000
  8. 8District of Columbia1 in 50,000

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. Carmelita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Carmelita around the world

Where Carmelita 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.

  • England & Wales
    2011–2011
    #5,785
    in 2011
  • France
    1940–1980
    #3,080
    in 1980
  • South Australia
    1958–1987
    #684
    in 1987

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Carmelita

People whose public names include Carmelita, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Carmelita in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Carmelita. Linked forms have their own page here.

LitaElitaMelitaCarmenitalukas perkin

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Carmelita by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,564
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 880
Best rank ever
#664
1930
Peak year
1973
140 that year
First recorded
1887
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,965
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Carmelita

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

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Names with a curve like Carmelita

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Carmelita, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

JeanettaThomasRichardErnestinaAngelitaTwylaThomasinaLucretiaPaulKennethTrevaRosita

Sibling names for Carmelita

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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