Carmello
#2,844 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Carmello has been given to 2,175 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #2,844 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 147 recorded.
Babies named Carmello, 2025
1 in 75,300
Carmello over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Carmello?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 75,300
- 44 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 38,800
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,844
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 52,226 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Carmello sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 52,226 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carmello. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Carmellos were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Carmello was born before 2010 — so the typical Carmello is around 15 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 41.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 81.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,827
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 41.6% of all recorded uses (895).
Is Carmello 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
- −448
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −111
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −728
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.67×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 29.9%
- Peak was 2011 (147)
- Years since peak
- 14
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 15.7% average annual change
Spellings of Carmello
Carmello is not the most common spelling — Carmelo is, with 39.5% against Carmello's 6.5%.
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 Carmello is used
Across 2016–2025, Carmello was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 53,890 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.
Carmello around the world
Where Carmello 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 & Wales2021–2021#3,990in 2021
- France1932–1968#1,654in 1968
- Canada2012–2012#2,715in 2012
- South Australia1958–1969#510in 1969
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Carmello in other languages
Cross-language forms and variants of Carmello. Linked forms have their own page here.
Carmello by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Carmello
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Carmello
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Carmello, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Carmello
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.